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Study of hot electrons generated from intense laser-plasma interaction employing Image Plate

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Image Plate (IP) is convenient to be used and very suitable for radiation detection because of its advantages such as wide dynamic range, high detective quantum efficiency, ultrahigh sensitivity and superior linearity. The function mechanism and characteristics of IP are introduced in this paper. IP was employed in the study of hot electrons generated from intense laser-plasma interaction. The angular distribution and energy spectrum of hot electrons were measured with IP in the experiments. The results demonstrate that IP is an effective radiation detector for the study of laser-plasma interaction.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    WenXi Liang, YuTong Li, MiaoHua Xu, XiaoHui Yuan, ZhiYuan Zheng, Yi Zhang, Feng Liu, ZhaoHua Wang, HanMing Li, Zhan Jin, ZhiYi Wei, YingJun Li & Jie Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710068, China

    XiaoHui Yuan & Wei Zhao

  3. School of Sciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China

    HanMing Li & YingJun Li

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10675164, 60621063, 10334110, 10575129, 10510490, and 10390161), the Funds of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Key Topics in Innovation Engineering (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-T01) and the National High-Tech ICF Program

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Liang, W., Li, Y., Xu, M. et al. Study of hot electrons generated from intense laser-plasma interaction employing Image Plate. Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 51, 1455–1462 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-008-0146-y

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