Laser-cluster interaction: x-ray production by short laser pulses

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We investigate the heating of the quasi-free electrons in large rare gas clusters (N exceeding 10^5 atoms) by short laser pulses at moderate intensities (I~10^{15} Wcm^{-2}). We identify elastic large-angle backscattering of electrons at ionic cores in the presence of a laser field as an efficient heating mechanism resembling the Fermi shuttle. Its efficiency as well as the effect of collective electron motion, electron-impact ionization and cluster charging, are studied employing a mean-field classical transport simulation. Results for the absolute x-ray yields are in surprisingly good quantitative agreement with recent experimental results.
5 pages,4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Atomic and Molecular Clusters

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/97928

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506215
 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506215
 Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013203 (2006)
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.013203

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