Mechanisms of electron acceleration in the excitation of nuclear reactions in solid-state laser plasmas

Abstract

Investigation of nuclear reactions in a solid-state plasma generated by modern high-intensity sources of ultrashort-wavelength laser radiation is undoubtedly of interest for establishing nuclear-reaction yields versus the intensity of laser radiation and for efficiently exciting new nuclear and photonuclear reactions—in particular, in the resonance energy region. The present article is devoted to describing, for laser plasmas, various mechanisms of electron acceleration, which triggers the acceleration of atomic ions and the excitation of subsequent nuclear reactions.