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Exploration of the energy deposition dynamic on short time scale with laser-driven electron accelerator


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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-24-0351  

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

01/10/2023

Person to be contacted by the applicant

BALDACCHINO Gérard gerard.baldacchino@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/LIDYL
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/PHI
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

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