Analysis of x-ray polarization to determine the three-dimensionally anisotropic velocity distributions of hot electrons in plasma produced by ultrahigh intensity lasers.
A new polarization spectroscopy model has been developed to analyze energetic electrons distributed in a three-dimensional phase space. This model calculates the polarization degrees for a given line of sight. Time-dependent polarization degrees of Healpha line emitted from heliumlike chlorine ions was obtained for two different lines of sight by using three-dimensional electron velocity distributions provided with two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. These results demonstrate that the polarization degrees are sensitively dependent on the profile of the electron velocity distributions which are affected by the polarization of the laser pulse.
Inubushi
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Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. yinubusi@ile.osaka-u.ac.jp
Kai
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Nakamura
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Fujioka
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Nishimura
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Mima
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