Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime Page 1 Highly Efficient
Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime T. Esirkepov,1,* M. Borghesi,2 SV …

Strong-field effects in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas and high intensity laser and
cavity systems are considered, related to quantum electrodynamical (QED) photon-photon …

The use of an intense collimated beam of protons produced by a high-intensity laser pulse
interacting with a plasma for the proton treatment of oncological diseases is discussed. The …

Due to their particular properties, the beams of the multi-MeV protons generated during the
interaction of ultraintense (I> 10 19 W/cm 2) short pulses with thin solid targets are most …

By focusing petawatt peak power laser light to intensities up to 10 21 W cm− 2, highly
relativistic plasmas can now be studied. The force exerted by light pulses with this extreme …

The generation of high energy protons from the interaction of a short laser pulse with a
dense plasma, accompanied by a preformed low density plasma, has been studied by …

As tabletop lasers continue to reach record levels of peak power, the interaction of light with
matter has crossed a new threshold, in which plasma electrons at the laser focus oscillate at …

In order to achieve a high-quality, ie, monoenergetic, intense ion beam, we propose the use
of a double-layer target. The first layer, at the target front, consists of high-Z atoms, while the …