TY - JOUR AU - Hützen, Anna AU - Thomas, Johannes AU - Böker, Jürgen AU - Engels, Ralf W. AU - Gebel, Ralf AU - Lehrach, Andreas AU - Pukhov, Alexander AU - Rakitzis, T. Peter AU - Sofikitis, Dimitris AU - Büscher, Markus TI - Polarized proton beams from laser-induced plasmas JO - High power laser science and engineering VL - 7 SN - 2052-3289 CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge Univ. Press M1 - FZJ-2019-00003 SP - e16 PY - 2019 AB - 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. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000461133600001 DO - DOI:10.1017/hpl.2018.73 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859033 ER -