Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

A Macchi, M Borghesi, M Passoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
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 …

Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications

H Daido, M Nishiuchi… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme

A Higginson, RJ Gray, M King, RJ Dance… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the
development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and …

Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

Maximum Proton Energy above 85 MeV from the Relativistic Interaction of Laser Pulses with Micrometer Thick Targets

F Wagner, O Deppert, C Brabetz, P Fiala… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We present a study of laser-driven ion acceleration with micrometer and submicrometer thick
plastic targets. Using laser pulses with high temporal contrast and an intensity of the order of …

Optics in the relativistic regime

GA Mourou, T Tajima, SV Bulanov - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
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 …

An interdisciplinary model for macroeconomics

AG Haldane, AE Turrell - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis,
when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the …

Review on experimental and theoretical investigations of ultra-short pulsed laser ablation of metals with burst pulses

DJ Förster, B Jäggi, A Michalowski… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Laser processing with ultra-short double pulses has gained attraction since the beginning of
the 2000s. In the last decade, pulse bursts consisting of multiple pulses with a delay of …

Laser-plasma acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic protons from microstructured targets

H Schwoerer, S Pfotenhauer, O Jäckel, KU Amthor… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Particle acceleration based on high intensity laser systems (a process known as laser–
plasma acceleration) has achieved high quality particle beams that compare favourably with …

Oncological hadrontherapy with laser ion accelerators

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, VS Khoroshkov… - Physics Letters A, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …