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 …

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 …

Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Rapid progress in the development of high-intensity laser systems has extended our ability
to study light–matter interactions far into the relativistic domain, in which electrons are driven …

The acceleration of high-energy ion beams (up to several tens of mega-electron-volts per
nucleon) following the interaction of short (t< 1 ps) and intense (I λ 2> 1018 W˙ cm-2˙ μm-2) …

The possibility of using high-power lasers to generate high-quality beams of energetic ions
is attracting large global interest. The prospect of using laser-accelerated protons in …

Protontherapy is a well‐established approach to treat cancer due to the favorable ballistic
properties of proton beams. Nevertheless, this treatment is today only possible with large …

This paper presents a systematic investigation of an ultrashort pulse laser acceleration of
protons that yields unprecedented maximum proton energies of 17 MeV at a table-top Ti …

Ions can be effectively accelerated during the interaction of an ultra-intense ultra-short laser
pulse irradiating a thin solid target via the so-called target normal sheath acceleration …

We present a general expression for the maximum ion energy observed in experiments with
thin foils irradiated by high-intensity laser pulses. The analytical model is based on a radially …