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Laboratory Astrophysics withHigh Energy Density Facilities
Edison Liang, Rice University
Workshop on Science with High PowerLasers and Pulse PowerSanta Fe, NM, July 2009
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EXAMPLES:
Gamma-Ray Bursts --- Laser-Generated Relativistic
Fireballs
Black Hole Annihilation Flares --- Laser-Generated Pair-
Balanced Plasmas
Numerical
Simulations
Scalable
Laboratory
Experiments
Astronomy
Observation
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KEY ELEMENTS FOR FUTURE ADVANCES
LASER ASTRO
LAB
EXPERIMENTS
Lasers
Diagnostic
Development
Target
Design &
Fabrication
Theory &
Scaling
Numerical
Simulation
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Two Regimes of Laboratory Astrophysics1. High Density/Collisional Astrophysics:
Physical Processes: Rad Flow; Hydro; MHD;Atomic and Nuclear Processes; EOS; opacitiesAstro Context: SN;SNR;Accretion Disks; StellarPhysics;Solar flares;Jets and Bubbles; ISM andICM; Nebulae
2. High Energy/Collisionless Astrophysics:Physical Processes: Plasma kinetics; ParticleAcceleration; Pairs; Relativistic Outflows andDissipation; Reconnection; Turbulence CascadeAstro Context: GRB;Blazars;Pulsars;PWN;SolarFlares;BH flares; Magnetars;Solar Wind and IPM;Cosmic Rays
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Two Approaches to Lab Astrophysics
1. Scalable Experiments in which key Dimensionlessparameters are similar for the lab and astro contexts
Examples: Ideal hydro Instabilities and Mixing and MHD;Shock dynamics; Hydro and MHD Jets and Interactions
2. Nonscalable experiments that provide meaningful testsand calibration of numerical codes. Once tested, such codes can thenbe applied to astrophysics simulations with “extrapolated” orparametrized physics.
Examples: Radiative Processes; Transport Processes;Reconnection; Turbulence Cascade; Relativistic and Pair Plasmas
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Here is what such lasers do to amaterial
• The laser is absorbed at less than 1% ofsolid density
From Drake, High-Energy-Density Physics,Springer (2006)
Rad xport, high-v plas Hydro, rad hydro
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Shock waves establish the regime ofan experiment
(from Drake et al)
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Supernova 1987A motivates scaledhydrodynamic instability experiments
• SN 1987A– A core-collapse supernova– Early high-Z x-ray lines with large
Doppler shifts– Early glow from radioactive
heating– The issue is the post-core-collapse
explosive behavior• In 20 years of simulations
– Only one (Kifonidis, 2006) makesfast enough high-Z material
– 3D simulations coupling all theinterfaces where initial conditionsmatter are not feasible
– NIF experiments can do this– Omega experiments address a
single interface
SN1987A, WFPC2, Hubble
Kifonidis, 2003
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Here is a typical target for supernovahydrodynamics experiments
•Precisionstructure insidea shock tube
•Hydrodynamics:–L >> λmfp; Re
> 105;–small heat
conduction &radiation Experiment design: Carolyn Kuranz
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Obtain data from two orthogonaldirections
Mid-1990’sdata
Dec. 06data at 21ns
Data andanalysis:CarolynKuranz
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We are now observing the role ofcomplex initial conditions in spike
penetration
Interferogram of complex surfaceon component provided by GA(analysis: Kai Ravariere)
Preliminary data on mix layer thickness
Data and analysis: Carolyn Kuranz
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HED hydrodynamics beyondsimulation on NIF
• The unresolved issue in exploding stars– The 3D behavior of a diverging explosion– With multiple, structured interfaces
• This problem cannot be fully simulated withcomputers– Too big, too complex, high Reynolds number
• NIF can do a very relevant experiment– Also can do transition to turbulence
• Preliminary design-related simulations• At Michigan and LLNL
– (Grosskopf) (Miles)
• Builds on experiments at Omega
National Ignition Facility
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Create and study driven radiativeshocks
10 drive beamsStrike Be disk
Xe filled tube
• Laser beams launch Bepiston into Xe or Ar gas at >100 km/s
• Piston drives a planar shock
• Radiography detects densexenon
• Gold grid provides spatialfiducial
• Parameters– 1015 W/cm2
– 0.35 µm light– 1 ns pulse– 600 µm tube dia.
Grid
Target: Mike Grosskopf, Donna Marion,Mark Taylor
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Sample radiographic images of radiativeshocks
• Average velocity 140 km/secfrom t = 0 to 14.6 ns fromlaser firing
• Two Phys. Plasmas papers
• Exploration of structure willbe a next theme
gold grid63 µm
Shot 39927
shock
target wall Data and analysis: Amy Reighard
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Advanced diagnostics will measuremuch more
• Thomson scattering• Collabora
tion withDustinFroulaandSiegfreidGlenzerof LLNL
Target: TrishaDonajkowski, MikeGrosskopf, DonnaMarion
Design: Amy Reighard
Data and analysis: Amy ReighardWith Dustin Froula
Data
•Fitting to data gives –110 km/s fluid velocity –ZTe = 12 x 300 eV –Te ≤ Ti ≤ 500 eV
Paper in prep. for Phys. Rev. Lett.
from Drake et al
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Sample x-ray image ofstellar jet deflection
experimentsat Omega by
Hartigan, Frankand collaborators.
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MHD Jets launched by Toroidal Fields from Lebedev’s Group in UK
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In High Energy Astrophysics, Five Major Questions Posed by WG:
1. What is the role of e+e- pairs in the most energeticphenomena of the universe such as gamma-ray bursts, AGN jets and pulsar wind dynamics?
2. Why are astrophysical jets spectacularly collimated overenormous distances?
3. How does tenuous plasma interact with and dissipateultra-relativistic or electromagnetic-dominated outflowssuch as pulsar winds and gamma-ray bursts?
4. How do shock waves produce high energy cosmic rays?
5. How does magnetic turbulence dissipate energy inastrophysical plasmas?
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Ωe/ωpe
log<γ>
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Microquasars
Stellar Black Holes
LASER PLASMAS
Phase space of laser pair plasmas overlap some relevanthigh energy astrophysics regimes
soliddensitycoronal
density
PulsarWind
Blazar
2x1022Wcm-2
2x1020
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relativistic e+e- plasmas are ubiquitous in the universe
Thermal MeV pairs Nonthermal TeV pairs
Laser-produced pair plasmas can be used to study astrophysics
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1
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Set-up of Titan Laser Experiments (Chen et al PRL 2009)
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11
2
MeV
EGSsimulations
Sample Titan data
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Titan data
MC sim
e+ yield per emergent hot electron as function of Au thickness. Discrepancy is likely due to angular effects (from Chen et al 2009).
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Assuming the conversion ratio of laser energy to hot electronsis ~ 30 %, and the hot electron temperature is ~ 5 -10MeV, theTitan results suggest that the optimized positron yield can reach
~ 1012 e+ per kJ of laser energywith the Au target > 5-6 mm
The in-situ e+ density should reach >1017/cm3 /kJ of laserenergy
The peak e+ current should reach 1024/sec
Pair content may reach 80% for thick targets
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=c/ωpe
Omega NIF
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Internal shocks:Hydrodynamic
Poynting flux:Electro-
magnetic
Gamma-Ray Bursts: High Γ favors ane+e- plasma outflow?
e+e- e+e-
Woosley & MacFadyen,A&A. Suppl. 138, 499 (1999)
What is primary energy source?How are the e+e- accelerated?
How do they radiate?
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Pulsae Stripe Wind Dissipation If wrinkled current dissipates, striped field dissipates, magnetic energy coverts to flow kinetic energy, “heat” & high frequency radiation, strong waves - partition?
Sheet Dissipation: Tearing of one locally ~ plane sheet? (Coroniti; too slow? - Kirk & co.)Cause: Current starvation? (everybody)sheet strong waves? - Melatos-vacuum)
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Sheets Interact - Two Stream (Weibel-like) instability
Thin Sheet (krL<<1)dynamics as if each sheet isunmagnetizedalthough intersheetmedium MHD
x0 =RL<< r
x0
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Possible Experiments
Computational: 3D PIC, must be MHD between sheets (frozen-in pairs) resolve current layer: Larmor and c/ωp scales of beam particles
could use rectangular geometry
Lab Experiment?Use laser on dense slab to launch relativistic electron-positron plasma
onto field lines of reversed B (RFP?)Launch beams into field reversal region?
Laser generated MHD electron-positron plasmaX XCharged
particle beam
currents
Strong Background B
Perp E to give cross field plasma flow?
Expt improves on simulation?
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laser
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&trajectories
Short pulse laser plasma interactionsShort pulse laser plasma interactions (solid targets) can generate (solid targets) can generate
ultra-strong fields > 10^9 gaussultra-strong fields > 10^9 gauss
from Krushelnick et al
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Mechanisms of magnetic field generationMechanisms of magnetic field generation in intense laser plasma interactions in intense laser plasma interactions
1. Non parallel temperature and density gradients.
2. Current due to fast electrons generated during the interaction (Weibel instability)
3. DC currents generated by the spatial and temporal variation of the ponderomotive force of the incident laser pulse Bdc ~ Blaser*
* R.N.Sudan, Phys. Rev. Lett., 70, 3075 (1993)
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Observation of Observation of cutoffscutoffs((Tatarakis Tatarakis et al.et al. NatureNature, , 415, 415, 280 (2002)) 280 (2002))
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Pair annihilation-like features had been reported for severalblack hole candidates, but only CygX-1 has been confirmed
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2D model of an e+e- pair-cloud surrounded by a thin accretion disk to explain the MeV-bump
n+~1017/cc
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The Black Hole gamma-ray-bump can be interpreted as emissions from a pair-dominated MeV plasma with n+ ~ 1017cm-3
logL(erg/s)
T/mc2
Pair-dominatedkT limit
Can laser-produced pair plasmas probe the pair-dominated temperature limit?
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Summary
1. Most successful experiments so far are in ideal hydroMHD regimes. Some radiative experiments havesuccessfully compared with codes. Jets and their
interactions are exciting new frontiers.
2. In the high energy/collisionless regime, creation ofcopious pairs and ultra-strong fields with PW class
lasers have been demonstrated. Meaningfulastrophysics experiments remain to be conceived and
designed.
3. Diagnostics is the biggest challenge. Much morethought, manpower and resource need to be devoted
to diagnostic development.