TY  - CHAP
AU  - Holler, A.
AU  - Büscher, M.
AU  - Engin, I.
AU  - Hessan, M.
AU  - Lehrach, A.
AU  - Raab, N.
AU  - Seyen, A.
AU  - Gibbon, P.
AU  - Karmakar, A.
AU  - Peth, C.
AU  - Toncian, M.
AU  - Toncian, T.
AU  - Willi, O.
TI  - Polarization of laser-accelerated ions
VL  - 179
CY  -  
PB  - IOS Press
M1  - FZJ-2018-06660
T2  -  Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"
SP  -  205 - 212
PY  - 2018
AB  - The physics of laser-plasma interactions has undergone dramatic improvements in recent years. By directing a multi-TW, ultrashort laser pulse onto a thin foil or a gas jet, it is nowadays possible to produce multi-MeV proton, ion and electron beams. Although much progress has been made in characterizing and improving the quality of such laser-generated beams, it is still an untouched issue whether the laser-generated beams are or can be spin polarized and, thus, whether laser-based polarized sources are conceivable. To this end, one may either think of a spatial selection of certain spin states through the huge magnetic field gradients that are inherently generated in the laser-generated plasmas, or of pre-polarized target particles which maintain their polarization during the rapid acceleration process. We have developed a method to measure the degree of polarization of protons that have been accelerated at the 300 TW laser facility ARCturus at Dusseldorf University.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)7
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857686
ER  -