A neutron star atmosphere in the laboratory with petawatt lasers

S. J. Moon; S. C. Wilks; R. I. Klein; B. A. Remington; D. D. Ryutov; A. J. MacKinnon; P. K. Patel; A. Spitkovsky

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A neutron star atmosphere in the laboratory with petawatt lasers

S. J. Moon, S. C. Wilks, R. I. Klein, B. A. Remington, D. D. Ryutov, A. J. MacKinnon, P. K. Patel, A. Spitkovsky

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We discuss the preliminary estimates to create Neutron Star atmospheric conditions in the laboratory and the possibility of generating photon bubbles. The minimal requirements for photon-bubble instability could potentially be met with a properly configured 10 ps petawatt laser experiment. The high energy (multi-MeV) electrons generated by an ultra-intense laser interacting with a foil are coupled to the electrons in the solid to heat the entire solid generating high thermal temperatures. Small amounts of matter could potentially be heated to ~1 keV temperatures with large radiation temperature. Additionally, 2-D PIC simulations show large B-fields on both the front and back of these targets with B fields consistent with experiments using the petawatt at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Tatarakis, M. et al.: 2002c, Nature 415, 280).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	293-298
Number of pages	6
Journal	Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume	298
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-005-3949-6
State	Published - Jun 2005
Externally published	Yes

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Neutron star atmosphere
Petawatt laser

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