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JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 289-301Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377808007769
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We estimate the total cross Sections for field-stimulated photoemissions and photoabsorptions by quasi-free electrons within a non-equilibrium plasma evolving from the strong coupling to the week coupling regime. Such a transition may occur within laser-created plasmas, when the initially created plasma, is cold but the heating of the plasma by the laser field is efficient. In particular, such a transition may occur within plasmas created by intense vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation from a free-electron laser (FEL) as indicated by the results of the first experiments performed by Wabnitz at the FLASH facility at DESY. In order to estimate the inverse bremsstrahlung cross sections, we use point-like and effective atomic potentials. For ions modelled as point-like charges, the total cross sections are strongly affected by the changing plasma environment. The maximal change of the cross sections may be of the order of 75 at the change of the plasma parameters: inverse Debye length, kappa, in the range kappa = 0 - 3 angstrom(-1) and the electron density, rho(c), in the range rho(e) = 0.01 - 1 angstrom(-3). These ranges correspond to the physical conditions within the plasmas created during the first cluster experiments performed at the FLASH facility at DESY. In contrast, for the effective atomic potentials the total cross sections for photoemission and photoabsorption change only by a factor of seven at most in the same plasma parameter range. Our results show that the inverse bremsstrahlung cross section estimated with the effective atomic potentials is not affected much by the plasma environment. This observation validates the estimations of the enhanced heating effect obtained by Walters, Santra, and Greene. This is important as this effect may be responsible for the high-energy absorption within clusters irradiated with VUV radiation.
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