High Energy Density Physics with Heavy Ion Beams and related Interaction Phenomena

Abstract

High intensity particle beams from accelerators induce high energy density states in bulk matter. Due to the specific nature of the ion-matter interaction a volume of matter is heated uniformly with low gradients of temperature and pressure in the initial phase, depending on the pulse structure of the beam with respect to space and time. We present an overview on recent results and developments of beam plasma, and beam matter interaction experiments with heavy ion and laser beams.

Effective Polytropic Indices of Anisotropic Planetary Magnetosheath Plasmas with Magnetoacoustic Waves

“…Further, strong magnetic fields occur also in laser-plasma systems [25][26][27][28]. Besides, knowing that temperatureanisotropy-driven Weibel-type waves are generated in systems with laser-plasma interaction [29] too, and that Alfvén and magnetoacoustic waves exist also in Tokamak systems, it would be of strong interest to investigate, if effects of plasma anisotropy are also important for the dispersion of the waves in such systems.…”

Technical Applications of the Physics of High Energy Densities

“…6.9); Berkeley, USA; ITEF, Russia; IPKhF, ITES OIVT RAN, Russia [80,82,127,213], where a wealth of interesting new data was obtained concerning the absorption of heavy ions by plasmas, shock-wave dynamics, isochoric target heating, plasma spectra, etc. [30,68,82,128,172,182,202,204,229,230].…”

Two-dimensional quantum hydrodynamic model for the heating of a solid target using a Gaussian cluster

“…Interaction processes of ion beam or cluster with matter are important for the applications in basic and applied physics (Patel et al, 2003;Brambrink et al, 2006;Tahir et al, 2009a), laboratory accelerator (Tahir et al, 2009b), inertial confinement fusion (ICF) (Deutsch, 1986;Deutsch et al, 1989;Hora, 2007;Hoffmann, 2008), astrophysical processes (Nettelmann et al, 2008), heavy ion beam research (Hoffmann et al, 2010;Stöckl et al, 1996;Tahir et al, 2007), and high energy density physics (HEDP) (Tahir et al, 2005;Nellis, 2006;Hoffmann et al, 2009). HEDP is understood to be the thermodynamic regime where the energy density exceeds 10 11 J/m 3 or equivalent pressure of 1 Mbar and above.…”

“…Using clusters as a ICF driver, can break through the space-charge limit of ion beam, which is helpful to achieve high heating effect. Recently, several attempts have been made to investigate the beam-matter interactions involving heavy ion (Zhao et al, 2009;Hoffmann et al, 2010), proton (Patel et al, 2003;Tahir et al, 2009a) and laser beams (Zhao et al, 2012). In particular, ICF is a promising scheme, where a target matter can be irradiated by intense ion beams or clusters, and be transformed into a plasma of high density and high temperature which can initiate fusion reactions (Deutsch, 1992;Tahir et al, 2005).…”