• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 34, Issue 6, 064004 (2022)
Shuo Shen1, Jianhong Hao1, Fang Zhang2、*, Qiang Zhao2, Jieqing Fan1, and Zhiwei Dong2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
  • 2Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202234.210481 Cite this Article
    Shuo Shen, Jianhong Hao, Fang Zhang, Qiang Zhao, Jieqing Fan, Zhiwei Dong. Study on beam-induced-stripping effect of hydrogen atom beam in long distance propagation in atmosphere[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(6): 064004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    When the hydrogen atom beam is transmitted in the atmosphere, the atmospheric stripping effect formed by the collision ionization between the beam particles and the atmospheric particles and the self-stripping effect formed by the collision ionization with the atmospheric particles are the important mechanisms causing the energy loss of the hydrogen atom beam. Due to the complex causes of self-stripping effect, although there are some theoretical research results, there is no experimental or numerical simulation work on its occurrence mechanism and beam loss effect. Therefore, this paper further improves the theory of self-stripping effect by analyzing the occurrence mechanism of self-stripping effect and its influence on beam loss. On the basis of verifying the applicability of particle cloud grid Monte-Carlo method to the atmospheric transport simulation of hydrogen atom beam through the beam transport equation, the simulation results are compared with the self-stripping theory, which basically verifies the applicability of the self-stripping effect theory. The simulation results show that the self-stripping effect is caused by the charged secondary particle clusters produced by the beam ionization by the atmosphere constantly passing through the beam under the influence of the geomagnetic field, and the strength of the self-stripping effect is related to the density of the atomic beam. The greater the beam density, the stronger the self-stripping effect, and the greater the influence on the beam.
    Shuo Shen, Jianhong Hao, Fang Zhang, Qiang Zhao, Jieqing Fan, Zhiwei Dong. Study on beam-induced-stripping effect of hydrogen atom beam in long distance propagation in atmosphere[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(6): 064004
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