Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8177291 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2014 | 4 Pages |
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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Authors
B. Aurand, S. Kuschel, O. Jäckel, C. Rödel, H.Y. Zhao, S. Herzer, A.E. Paz, J. Bierbach, J. Polz, B. Elkin, A. Karmakar, P. Gibbon, M.C. Kaluza, T. Kuehl,