General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-25-0355
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Condensed Matter Physics, chemistry, nanosciences
Thesis topics
Exploration of the energy deposition dynamic on short time scale with laser-driven electron accelerator in the context of the Flash effect in radiotherapy
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The objective of the thesis project is to analyze the physicochemical processes resulting from the extreme dose rates that can now be obtained in water with the ultra-short (fs) pulses of relativistic electrons produced by laser-plasma acceleration. Indeed, first measurements show that these processes are probably not equivalent to those obtained with longer pulses (µs) in the FLASH effect used in radiotherapy. To achieve this, we propose to analyze the dynamics of formation/recombination of the hydrated electron, an emblematic species of water radiolysis, to qualify and quantify the dose rate effect over increasingly shorter times. This will be done in three stages in support of the necessary and now accessible technological progress, to have a dose per pulse sufficient to directly detect the hydrated electron. First, with the existing UHI100 facility, using the scavenging of the hydrated electron by producing a stable species; then producing a less stable but detectable species in real time and increasing the repetition rate of the electron source. Finally, by using an innovative concept named a “hybrid target”, based on a plasma mirror as an electron injector coupled to a laser-plasma accelerator, delivering larger doses with a narrower energy spectrum, we will be able to develop pump-probe detection allowing access to the shortest times, and to the formation in clusters of ionization, of the hydrated electron and measuring its initial yield.
University / doctoral school
Ondes et Matière (EDOM)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
BALDACCHINO Gérard
gerard.baldacchino@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/LIDyL/DICO
CEA Paris-Saclay
DRF/IRAMIS/LIDyL
Dynamique et Interactions en phase COndensée (DICO)
Bât.701, p19B
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex,
France
01 69 08 57 02
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DOBOSZ DUFRÉNOY Sandrine
sandrine.dobosz@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/LIDyL
Groupe Physique à Haute Intensité
DSM/IRAMIS/LIDYL/PHI
Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamique et Lasers
CEA Saclay, Bât 701 p 50
91 191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
01.69.08.63.40
En savoir plus
https://iramis-devwp.extra.cea.fr/lidyl/dico/pisp/gerard-baldacchino-2/
https://iramis.cea.fr/lidyl/dico/
https://iramis-devwp.extra.cea.fr/pisp/sandrine-dobosz-dufrenoy-2/