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Effect of the plasma density scale length on the properties of Brehmsstrahlung X-ray sources created by picosecond laser pulses

Christian Courtois 1 A. Compant La Fontaine 1 O. Landoas 1 E. Lefebvre 1 G. Lidove 1 V. Méot 1 P. Morel 1 R. Nuter 1 A. Boscheron 2 J. Grenier 2 M. M. Aléonard 3 M. Gerbaux 3 F. Gobet 3 F. Hannachi 3 G. Malka 3 J. N. Scheurer 3 M. Tarisien 3
1 DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France
2 CESTA - Centre d'études scientifiques et techniques d'Aquitaine
3 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
Abstract : Results of an experimental study of multi-MeV bremsstrahlung x-ray sources created by picosecond laser pulses are presented. The x-ray source is created by focusing the short pulse in an expanding plasma obtained by heating a solid target with a time-delayed nanosecond laser beam. The high-energy part of the x-ray spectrum and emission lobe are inferred from photonuclear activation techniques. The x-ray dose is measured with silicon diodes. Two-dimensional images of the source are reconstructed from a penumbral imaging technique. These results indicate the creation of a relatively small source, below 200 µm diameter, delivering doses up to 12 mrad in air at 1 m with x-ray temperature up to 2.8 MeV. The diagnostics used give access to a whole set of coherent experimental results on the x-ray source properties which are compared to extensive numerical simulations. X-ray intensity and temperature are found to increase with the size of the preplasma. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
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Christian Courtois, A. Compant La Fontaine, O. Landoas, E. Lefebvre, G. Lidove, et al.. Effect of the plasma density scale length on the properties of Brehmsstrahlung X-ray sources created by picosecond laser pulses. Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, 2009, 16, pp.013105. ⟨10.1063/1.3067825⟩. ⟨in2p3-00360439⟩

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