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- Title
Relativistic shock waves in the laboratory.
- Authors
Eliezer, Shalom; Martinez Val, Jose Maria; Vinikman Pinhasi, Shirly
- Abstract
Due to the recent developments in high power lasers in the multi-petawatt domain it seems now feasible to accelerate a micro-foil to relativistic velocities. In this paper, we calculate analytically the high velocities achieved by the ponderomotive force of the irradiating laser. The accelerated foil collides with a second foil resulting in the creation of the relativistic shock waves. The density, pressure, temperature, and shock wave velocities are calculated within the context of relativistic fluid dynamics. The calculated thermodynamic parameters that are achieved in these collisions are enormous.
- Subjects
SHOCK waves; RELATIVISTIC particles; HIGH power lasers; FEASIBILITY studies; PONDEROMOTIVE force; COLLISIONS (Nuclear physics); RELATIVISTIC fluid dynamics
- Publication
Laser & Particle Beams, 2013, Vol 31, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0263-0346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0263034612000912