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Ter-Avetisyan S, Schnürer M, Nickles PV, et al. The Thomson deflectometer: a novel use of the Thomson spectrometer as a transient field and plasma diagnostic. Rev Sci Instrum. 2008;79(3):033303doi: 10.1063/1.2901579.
Ter-Avetisyan, S., Schnürer, M., Nickles, P. V., Sokollik, T., Risse, E., Kalashnikov, M., Sandner, W., & Priebe, G. (2008). The Thomson deflectometer: a novel use of the Thomson spectrometer as a transient field and plasma diagnostic. The Review of scientific instruments, 79(3), 033303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2901579
Ter-Avetisyan, S, et al. "The Thomson deflectometer: a novel use of the Thomson spectrometer as a transient field and plasma diagnostic." The Review of scientific instruments vol. 79,3 (2008): 033303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2901579
Ter-Avetisyan S, Schnürer M, Nickles PV, Sokollik T, Risse E, Kalashnikov M, Sandner W, Priebe G. The Thomson deflectometer: a novel use of the Thomson spectrometer as a transient field and plasma diagnostic. Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Mar;79(3):033303. doi: 10.1063/1.2901579. PMID: 18377003.
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Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Mar;79(3):033303. doi: 10.1063/1.2901579.

The Thomson deflectometer: a novel use of the Thomson spectrometer as a transient field and plasma diagnostic.

The Review of scientific instruments

S Ter-Avetisyan, M Schnürer, P V Nickles, T Sokollik, E Risse, M Kalashnikov, W Sandner, G Priebe

Affiliations

  1. Max Born Institute, Max Born Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 18377003 DOI: 10.1063/1.2901579

Abstract

Laser accelerated proton beams have been used for field characterization in expanding plasmas. The Thomson parabola spectrometer, as a charged particles analyzer, also allows precise measurement of the charged particles' trajectories. The proton's deflections by fast changing plasma fields can be measured with the new design of the Thomson parabola spectrometer and, therefore, it can be applied for proton deflectometry. It is shown that from resulting spectrograms the plasma field dynamics can be reconstructed with high temporal resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment, a weakly relativistic plasma expansion is studied as an example.

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