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Analytical solution to the Cauchy problem for the kinetic equation describing the radial acceleration of ions under the action of the ponderomotive force of a laser beam undergoing guided propagation in transparent plasma is constructed. Spatial and temporal dependences of the ion distribution function and the integral ion characteristics, such as the density, average velocity, and energy spectrum, are obtained for an axisymmetric laser-plasma channel. The formation of a density peak near the channel boundary and the effect of ion flow breaking for a quasi-stationary laser beam are described analytically.
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Original Russian Text © V.F. Kovalev, V.Yu. Bychenkov, 2015, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 374–380.
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Kovalev, V.F., Bychenkov, V.Y. Dynamics of ponderomotive ion acceleration in a laser-plasma channel. Plasma Phys. Rep. 41, 343–349 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X15040017
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