The study of the interaction between ion beam and plasma is very important to the areas of inertial fusion energy and high energy density physics. With detailed one-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulat...The study of the interaction between ion beam and plasma is very important to the areas of inertial fusion energy and high energy density physics. With detailed one-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate here the interaction of a laseraccelerated proton beam assuming an ideal monoenergetic beam with a gas-discharge plasma.After the saturation stage of the two-stream instability excited by the proton beam, significant high energy electrons are observed, with maximum energy approaching 2 MeV, and a new twostream instability occurs between the high energy electrons and background electrons. The trajectories of plasma electrons are studied, showing the process of electron trapping and detrapping from the wakefield.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12075046 and 11775042)。
文摘The study of the interaction between ion beam and plasma is very important to the areas of inertial fusion energy and high energy density physics. With detailed one-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate here the interaction of a laseraccelerated proton beam assuming an ideal monoenergetic beam with a gas-discharge plasma.After the saturation stage of the two-stream instability excited by the proton beam, significant high energy electrons are observed, with maximum energy approaching 2 MeV, and a new twostream instability occurs between the high energy electrons and background electrons. The trajectories of plasma electrons are studied, showing the process of electron trapping and detrapping from the wakefield.
