%0 Journal Article
%A Hützen, Anna
%A Thomas, Johannes
%A Böker, Jürgen
%A Engels, Ralf W.
%A Gebel, Ralf
%A Lehrach, Andreas
%A Pukhov, Alexander
%A Rakitzis, T. Peter
%A Sofikitis, Dimitris
%A Büscher, Markus
%T Polarized proton beams from laser-induced plasmas
%J High power laser science and engineering
%V 7
%@ 2052-3289
%C Cambridge
%I Cambridge Univ. Press
%M FZJ-2019-00003
%P e16
%D 2019
%X We report on the concept of an innovative laser-drivenplasma accelerator for polarized proton (or deuteron) beamswith a kinetic energy up to several GeV. In order to mod-ell the motion of the particle spins in the plasmas, thesehave been implemented as an additional degree of freedominto the Particle-in-Cell simulation code VLPL. Our firstsimulations for nuclear polarized Hydrogen targets showthat, for typical cases, the spin directions remain invariantduring the acceleration process. For the experimental real-ization, a polarized HCl gas-jet target is under constructionwhere the degree of proton polarization is determined witha Lamb-shift polarimeter. The final experiments, aimingat the first observation of a polarized particle beam fromlaser-generated plasmas, will be carried out at the 10 PWlaser system SULF at SIOM/Shanghai.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000461133600001
%R 10.1017/hpl.2018.73
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859033