Enhanced radiation pressure-assisted acceleration by temporally tuned counter-propagating pulses

Aurand, B.; Elkin, B.; Gibbon, P.; Herzer, S.; Paz, A. E.; Polz, J.; Jäckel, O.; Rödel, C.; Karmakar, A.; Bierbach, J.; Zhao, H. Y.; Kaluza, M. C.; Kuschel, S.; Kuehl, T.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.010

Journal Article

FZJ-2014-01413

Enhanced radiation pressure-assisted acceleration by temporally tuned counter-propagating pulses

Aurand, B. (Corresponding author) ; Kuschel, S. ; Jäckel, O. ; Rödel, C. ; Zhao, H. Y. ; Herzer, S. ; Paz, A. E. ; Bierbach, J. ; Polz, J. ; Elkin, B. ; Karmakar, A.FZJ* ; Gibbon, P.FZJ* ; Kaluza, M. C. ; Kuehl, T.

2014
North-Holland Publ. Co. Amsterdam

Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A 740, 83 - 86 (2014) [10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.010] special issue: "Proceedings of the first European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2013"

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Abstract: Within the last decade, laser-ion acceleration has become a field of broad interest. The possibility to generate short proton- or heavy ion bunches with an energy of a few tens of MeV by table-top laser systems could open new opportunities for medical or technical applications. Nevertheless, today's laser-acceleration schemes lead mainly to a temperature-like energy distribution of the accelerated ions, a big disadvantage compared to mono-energetic beams from conventional accelerators. Recent results [1] of laser-ion acceleration using radiation-pressure appear promising to overcome this drawback. In this paper, we demonstrate the influence of a second counter-propagating laser pulse interacting with a nm-thick target, creating a well defined pre-plasma.

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