Comparative Studies of Electron Resistive and Conduction Models for Capillary Discharges Applications

A. Diaw, S. Coleman, N. Cook, J. Edelen, E. Hansen, P. Tzeferacos

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Abstract

Capillary discharge waveguides have been demonstrated to serve as an enabling technology for the acceleration and transport of high quality electron beams for next generation plasma accelerators [1]. The dynamical evolution these plasmas waveguides involves various transport and energy exchanges processes. Understanding these complex plasma phenomena and their impact on the electron beam quality is essential to analyzing and designing plasma accelerators. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a powerful computational tool to model electrons, ions and radiation dynamics for these systems. However, the predictive capability of MHD framework is highly sensitive to the microphysics model (e.g., equation of state, transport coefficients) used as closure for the macroscopic model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, ICOPS 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665432276
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 12 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, ICOPS 2021 - Lake Tahoe, United States
Duration: Sep 12 2021Sep 16 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Plasma Science
Volume2021-September
ISSN (Print)0730-9244

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, ICOPS 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Tahoe
Period09/12/2109/16/21

Funding

1. W.P. Leemans et al. “Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Capillary-Discharge-Guided Subpetawatt Laser Pulses in the Self-Trapping Regime”, PRL, 113, 245002, (2014). 2. J. R. Davies et al., “Transport coefficients for magnetic-field evolution in inviscid magnetohydrodynamics”, PoP, 28,012305, (2021). 3. J. Ji and E.D. Held, “Closure and transport theory for high-collisionality electron-ion plasmas”, PoP, 13, 042114 (2013). 4. L. Spitzer and R. Harm, “Transport Phenomena in a Completely Ionized Gas” Phys. Rev. 89, 977 (1953). 5. S. I. Braginskii, “Transport processes in a plasma,” in Reviews of Plasma Physics, edited by A. M. Leontovich ( Consultants Bureau, New York, 1965), Vol. 1, p. 251. ________________________________ * This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics under Award Number DE-SC0018719

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