%0 Journal Article
%A Raab, Natascha
%A Büscher, Markus
%A Cerchez, Mirela
%A Engels, Ralf W.
%A Engin, Ilhan
%A Gibbon, Paul
%A Greven, Patrick
%A Holler, Astrid
%A Karmakar, Anupam
%A Lehrach, Andreas
%A Maier, Rudolf
%A Swantusch, Marco
%A Toncian, Monika
%A Willi, Toma Toncian and Oswald
%T Polarization measurement of laser-accelerated protons
%J Physics of plasmas
%V 21
%@ 1070-664X
%C [S.l.]
%I American Institute of Physics
%M FZJ-2014-01152
%P 023104
%D 2014
%Z JuSPARC
%X We report on the successful use of a laser-driven few-MeV proton source to measure the differential cross section of a hadronic scattering reaction as well as on the measurement and simulation study of polarization observables of the laser-accelerated charged particle beams. These investigations were carried out with thin foil targets, illuminated by 100 TW laser pulses at the Arcturus laser facility; the polarization measurement is based on the spin dependence of hadronic proton scattering off nuclei in a Silicon target. We find proton beam polarizations consistent with zero magnitude which indicates that for these particular laser-target parameters the particle spins are not aligned by the strong magnetic fields inside the laser-generated plasmas
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000332323400068
%R 10.1063/1.4865096
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151153