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In this paper, we investigate the effect of cooling on the X-ray properties of galaxy clusters. We have performed N-body, hydrodynamical simulations both with and without the effects of radiative cooling, but neglecting the effects of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , A. C. Edge

Particle acceleration and heating at mildly relativistic magnetized shocks in electron-ion plasma are investigated with unprecedentedly high-resolution two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that include ion-scale shock rippling.…

Radiation reaction (RR) effects on the acceleration of a thin plasma foil by a superintense laser pulse in the radiation pressure dominated regime are investigated theoretically. A simple suitable approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 M. Tamburini , F. Pegoraro , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel , A. Macchi

The ionization dynamic of argon plasma irradiated by an intense laser is investigated to understand transient physics in dynamic systems. This study demonstrates that significant delayed ionization responses and stepwise ionization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 M. S. Cho , A. L. Milder , W. Rozmus , H. P. Le , H. A. Scott , D. T. Bishel , D. Turnbull , S. B. Libby , M. E. Foord

In this paper we report the experimental implementation of a theoretically-proposed technique for creating a photoionized plasma in the laboratory using X-ray line radiation. Using a Sn laser-plasma to irradiate an Ar gas target, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 S White , R Irwin , R Warwick , G Gribakin , G Sarri , F P Keenan , D Riley , S J Rose , E G Hill , G J Ferland , B Han , F Wang , G Zhao

X-ray observations are a direct diagnostic of fast electrons produced in solar flares, energized during the energy release process and directed towards the Sun. Since the properties of accelerated electrons can be substantially changed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar , Gordon Emslie , Nicolas Bian

Analytical studies of light bending in a dispersive medium near compact objects, e.g., black holes or neutron stars, are most challenged by a suitable definition of the medium. The most realistic model would be a hot magnetized plasma. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Barbora Bezděková , Volker Perlick

Electron heating and ionization dynamics in capacitively coupled radio frequency (RF) atmospheric pressure microplasmas operated in helium are investigated by Particle in Cell simulations and semi-analytical modeling. A strong heating of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 T. Hemke , D. Eremin , T. Mussenbrock , A. Derzsi , Z. Donkó , K. Dittmann , J. Meichsner , J. Schulze

In atoms undergoing ionisation, an abrupt re-arrangement of free and bound electrons can lead to the ejection of another bound electron (shake-off). The spectroscopic signatures of shake-off have been predicted and observed in atoms and…

This study on plasma heating considers the time-dependent ionization process during a large solar flare on September 10, 2017, observed by Hinode/EIS. The observed FeXXIV / FeXXIII ratios increase downstream of the reconnection outflow, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Imada

The energy distributions of Ta ions produced in a nanosecond laser-heated plasma at 4$\times$10$^{15}$ W/cm$^{2}$ are experimentally and theoretically investigated. They are measured far from the target with an electrostatic spectrometer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 F. Gobet , M. Comet , J-R. Marques , V. Meot , X. Raymond , M. Versteegen , J. -L. Henares , O. Morice

Hot electron temperatures and electron energy spectra in the course of interaction between intense laser pulse and overdense plasmas are reexamined from a viewpoint of the difference in laser wavelength. The hot electron temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Susumu Kato , Eiichi Takahashi , Tatsuya Aota , Yuji Matsumoto , Isao Okuda , Yoshiro Owadano

Intensity interferometry of thermal photons, having transverse momenta $k_T \approx $ 0.1 -- 2.0 GeV, produced in relativistic collision of heavy nuclei is studied. It is seen to provide an accurate information about the temporal and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

We consider tunnel ionization of atomic argon in a femtosecond laser pulse of intensity $10^{21}-10^{22}{\rm W/cm}^2$ aiming to investigate the relativistic dynamics and radiation of photoelectrons released from their parent ions inside the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 N. V. Makarenko , S. V. Popruzhenko

Strongly magnetizing a plasma adds a range of waves that do not exist in unmagnetized plasmas and enlarges the laser-plasma interaction (LPI) landscape. In this paper, we use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to investigate strongly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Lili Manzo , Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi

Ultracold neutral plasmas are formed by photoionizing laser-cooled atoms near the ionization threshold. Through the application of atomic physics techniques and diagnostics, these experiments stretch the boundaries of traditional neutral…

The influence of laser frequency on laser-driven ion acceleration is investigated by means of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. When ultrashort intense laser pulse at higher harmonic frequency irradiates a thin solid foil, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Jan Psikal , Ondrej Klimo , Stefan Weber , Daniele Margarone

The hard x-ray emission in the energy range of 30-300 keV from copper plasmas produced by 100 fs, 806 nm laser pulses at intensities in the range of 10$^{15}-10^{16}$ W cm$^{-2}$ is investigated. We demonstrate that surface roughness of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. P. Rajeev , S. Banerjee , A. S. Sandhu , L. C. Tribedi , G. R. Kumar

The effects of a radiation field (RF) on the interaction process of a relativistic electron beam (REB) with an electron plasma are investigated. The stopping power of the test electron averaged with a period of the RF has been calculated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Hrachya B. Nersisyan , Claude Deutsch

The next few years will see next-generation high-power laser facilities (such as the Extreme Light Infrastructure) become operational, for which it is important to understand how interaction with intense laser pulses affects the bulk…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel R. Yoffe , Adam Noble , Yevgen Kravets , Dino A. Jaroszynski