Fast and cold negative ion and neutral atom beams from a water spray

S. Ter-Avetisyan, M. Schnuerer, V. Tikhonchuk

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS(2023)

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High-power lasers are routinely used to generate energetic positively charged ions, and this paper reports on the observation of negative ions in these experiments. A large number of negative ions and neutral atoms at MeV energies was obtained from the interaction of a high intensity laser pulse with a water spray along with positive ions [Abicht et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 253501 (2013)]. Beams of negative ions and neutral atoms have the same properties as beams of positive ions. However, the mechanism of negative ion formation and acceleration is still under discussion. In order to gain more information about physics of generation negative ions and neutrals, we present a new experiment where all species, positive, negative ions, and neutrals, are spatially separated, and the electron capture and loss of each in water spray is evaluated. The formation of negative ions and neutral atoms of hydrogen and carbon with energies up to 140 keV and 1.2 MeV, respectively, is confirmed. It is suggested that the electrification of spray droplets plays a decisive role in these charge-exchange processes.
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neutral atom beams,cold negative ion
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