Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Interplay between the Weibel instability and th...

Research

Electronic data

  • 1907.10433

    Accepted author manuscript, 3.81 MB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions. / Shukla, N.; Schoeffler, K.; Boella, E. et al.
In: Physical Review Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, 023129, 05.05.2020.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Shukla, N, Schoeffler, K, Boella, E, Vieira, J, Fonseca, R & Silva, LO 2020, 'Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions', Physical Review Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 023129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129

APA

Shukla, N., Schoeffler, K., Boella, E., Vieira, J., Fonseca, R., & Silva, L. O. (2020). Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions. Physical Review Research, 2(2), Article 023129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129

Vancouver

Shukla N, Schoeffler K, Boella E, Vieira J, Fonseca R, Silva LO. Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions. Physical Review Research. 2020 May 5;2(2):023129. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129

Author

Shukla, N. ; Schoeffler, K. ; Boella, E. et al. / Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions. In: Physical Review Research. 2020 ; Vol. 2, No. 2.

Bibtex

@article{74d258c2b904424f92a7020bf45d149a,
title = "Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions",
abstract = "Our setup allows the Weibel instability and its interplay with the Biermann battery to be probed in laser-driven collisionless plasmas. Ab initio particle-in-cell simulations of the interaction of short (≤1ps) intense (a0≥1) laser pulses with overdense plasma targets show observable Weibel generated magnetic fields. This field strength surpasses that of the Biermann battery, usually dominant in experiments, as long as the gradient scale length is much larger than the local electron inertial length; this is achievable by carefully setting the appropriate gradients in the front of the target, e.g., by tuning the delay between the main laser pulse and the prepulse.",
author = "N. Shukla and K. Schoeffler and E. Boella and J. Vieira and R. Fonseca and Silva, {L. O.}",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129",
language = "English",
volume = "2",
journal = "Physical Review Research",
issn = "2643-1564",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions

AU - Shukla, N.

AU - Schoeffler, K.

AU - Boella, E.

AU - Vieira, J.

AU - Fonseca, R.

AU - Silva, L. O.

PY - 2020/5/5

Y1 - 2020/5/5

N2 - Our setup allows the Weibel instability and its interplay with the Biermann battery to be probed in laser-driven collisionless plasmas. Ab initio particle-in-cell simulations of the interaction of short (≤1ps) intense (a0≥1) laser pulses with overdense plasma targets show observable Weibel generated magnetic fields. This field strength surpasses that of the Biermann battery, usually dominant in experiments, as long as the gradient scale length is much larger than the local electron inertial length; this is achievable by carefully setting the appropriate gradients in the front of the target, e.g., by tuning the delay between the main laser pulse and the prepulse.

AB - Our setup allows the Weibel instability and its interplay with the Biermann battery to be probed in laser-driven collisionless plasmas. Ab initio particle-in-cell simulations of the interaction of short (≤1ps) intense (a0≥1) laser pulses with overdense plasma targets show observable Weibel generated magnetic fields. This field strength surpasses that of the Biermann battery, usually dominant in experiments, as long as the gradient scale length is much larger than the local electron inertial length; this is achievable by carefully setting the appropriate gradients in the front of the target, e.g., by tuning the delay between the main laser pulse and the prepulse.

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023129

M3 - Journal article

VL - 2

JO - Physical Review Research

JF - Physical Review Research

SN - 2643-1564

IS - 2

M1 - 023129

ER -