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We discuss the preliminary estimates to create Neutron Star atmospheric conditions in the laboratory and the possibility of generating photon bubbles. The minimal requirements for photonbubble instability could potentially be met with a properly configured 10 ps petawatt laser experiment. The high energy (multi-MeV) electrons generated by an ultra-intense laser interacting with a foil are coupled to the electrons in the solid to heat the entire solid generating high thermal temperatures. Small amounts of matter could potentially be heated to ∼1 keV temperatures with large radiation temperature. Additionally, 2-D PIC simulations show large B-fields on both the front and back of these targets with B fields consistent with experiments using the petawatt at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Tatarakis, M. et al.: 2002c, Nature 415, 280).
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Moon, S. et al. (2005). A Neutron Star Atmosphere in the Laboratory with Petawatt Lasers. In: Kyrala, G. (eds) High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4162-4_42
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