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Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma

Moderation of recombination in an ultracold laser-produced plasma

A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko

A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: It is shown that the recent production [T C Killian et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 4776 (1999)] of an ultracold laser plasma (N_e ~ 2 × 10⁹ cm^–3, T_e ~ 0.1 K, T_i ~ 10 μK) can be considered as the first experimental demonstration of the metastable state of a supercooled plasma which we predicted theoretically. Our theory provides an explanation for the moderation of three-body recombination observed in the above-cited paper. We present the calculations that simulate the conditions of the ultracold-plasma experiments.

PACS: 52.40.Nk, 52.25.Kn, 52.25.Jm

Received: 12.10.2000

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2000, 30:12, 1077–1079

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