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 …

Forward-looking insights in laser-generated ultra-intense γ-ray and neutron sources for nuclear application and science

MM Günther, ON Rosmej, P Tavana… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultra-intense MeV photon and neutron beams are indispensable tools in many research
fields such as nuclear, atomic and material science as well as in medical and biophysical …

Collisionless shocks in laser-produced plasma generate monoenergetic high-energy proton beams

D Haberberger, S Tochitsky, F Fiuza, C Gong… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Compact and affordable ion accelerators based on laser-produced plasmas have potential
applications in many fields of science and medicine. However, the requirement of producing …

Radiation-pressure acceleration of ion beams driven by circularly polarized laser pulses

A Henig, S Steinke, M Schnürer, T Sokollik, R Hörlein… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
We present experimental studies on ion acceleration from ultrathin diamondlike carbon foils
irradiated by ultrahigh contrast laser pulses of energy 0.7 J focused to peak intensities of 5× …

Bright laser-driven neutron source based on the relativistic transparency of solids

M Roth, D Jung, K Falk, N Guler, O Deppert, M Devlin… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Neutrons are unique particles to probe samples in many fields of research ranging from
biology to material sciences to engineering and security applications. Access to bright …

Ion acceleration in multispecies targets driven by intense laser radiation pressure

S Kar, KF Kakolee, B Qiao, A Macchi, M Cerchez… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
The acceleration of ions from ultrathin foils has been investigated by using 250 TW,
subpicosecond laser pulses, focused to intensities of up to 3× 10 20 W cm-2. The ion spectra …

Radiation pressure acceleration of protons to 93 MeV with circularly polarized petawatt laser pulses

IJ Kim, KH Pae, IW Choi, CL Lee, HT Kim… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) of charged particles has been a challenging task
in laser-driven proton/ion acceleration due to its stringent requirements in laser and target …

Radiochromic film imaging spectroscopy of laser-accelerated proton beams

F Nürnberg, M Schollmeier, E Brambrink… - Review of scientific …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
This article reports on an experimental method to fully reconstruct laser-accelerated proton
beam parameters called radiochromic film imaging spectroscopy (RIS). RIS allows for the …

Laser-driven shock acceleration of monoenergetic ion beams

F Fiúza, A Stockem, E Boella, RA Fonseca, LO Silva… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We show that monoenergetic ion beams can be accelerated by moderate Mach number
collisionless, electrostatic shocks propagating in a long scale-length exponentially decaying …