How to define a thin target

[dsbertini]

Hi,
I could not found any forum or mailing list related to SmileiPIC so i am using the issue tracker of github.
Could you tell me if one can simulate with SmileiPIC the interaction of lets say a gaussian laser beam with a thin carbon target?
If yes how can i define this target ( as species with a density distribution ? )
Thanks in advance
Denis Bertini

[MickaelGrechX]

Hello! Of course, you can simulate the interaction of a Gaussian pulse with a thin foil. To do so, you can use Smilei defined Laser block (as an injecting boundary condition) as explained here <http://www.maisondelasimulation.fr/projects/Smilei/html/namelist.html#lasers> (eg using §4. 2D Gaussian wave). For the target, you need to define both ion and electron species as explained there <http://www.maisondelasimulation.fr/projects/Smilei/html/namelist.html#species>, you just have to adapt the density profiles to have thick/thin targets. Note that there is a benchmark ( smilei/benchmarks/tst2d_2_radiation_pressure_acc) that considers a thin foil irradiated by an (hyper-Gaussian here) laser pulse. You can build up on this benchmark to prepare your own input file. Keep SMILEIng!

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[dsbertini]

Hi
Thanks a lot !
I will try keep SMILEIng !... i am actually trying to reproduce the results of a simulation on such interaction laser - thin target using EPOCH simulation.
May be of interest for you as well ...
I will look into the docs ! Merci encore !

[MickaelGrechX]

It sure will! He you can give us feedback on both accuracy & computation time we are really interested!

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