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 -