Measuring the strong electrostatic and magnetic fields with proton radiography for ultra-high intensity laser
Y Uematsu1, S Ivancic2, T Iwawaki1
1Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
The Review of Scientific Instruments
|November 29, 2014
Abstract:
In order to investigate the intense laser propagation and channel formation in dense plasma, we conducted an experiment with proton deflectometry on the OMEGA EP Laser facility. The proton image was analyzed by tracing the trajectory of mono-energetic protons, which provides understanding the electric and magnetic fields that were generated around the channel. The estimated field strengths (E ∼ 10(11) V/m and B ∼ 10(8) G) agree with the predictions from 2D-Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, indicating the feasibility of the proton deflectometry technique for over-critical density plasma.
