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 …

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 …

Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock

CAJ Palmer, NP Dover, I Pogorelsky, M Babzien… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We report on the acceleration of impurity-free quasimononenergetic proton beams from an
initially gaseous hydrogen target driven by an intense infrared (λ= 10 μ m) laser. The front …

Combinatorial synthesis of chemically diverse core-shell nanoparticles for intracellular delivery

DJ Siegwart, KA Whitehead, L Nuhn… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Analogous to an assembly line, we employed a modular design for the high-throughput
study of 1,536 structurally distinct nanoparticles with cationic cores and variable shells. This …

Photon Bubbles and Ion Acceleration in a Plasma Dominated by the Radiation Pressure<? format?> of an Electromagnetic Pulse

F Pegoraro, SV Bulanov - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
The stability of a thin plasma foil accelerated by the radiation pressure of a high intensity
electromagnetic (em) pulse is investigated analytically and with particle in cell numerical …

High-energy ions from near-critical density plasmas via magnetic vortex acceleration

T Nakamura, SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Ultraintense laser pulses propagating in near-critical density plasmas generate magnetic
dipole vortex structures. In the region of decreasing plasma density, the vortex expands both …

Stable laser-acceleration of high-flux proton beams with plasma collimation

MJV Streeter, GD Glenn, S DiIorio, F Treffert… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Laser-plasma acceleration of protons offers a compact, ultra-fast alternative to conventional
acceleration techniques, and is being widely pursued for potential applications in medicine …

Towards the optimisation of direct laser acceleration

AE Hussein, AV Arefiev, T Batson, H Chen… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental measurements using the OMEGA EP laser facility demonstrated direct laser
acceleration (DLA) of electron beams to (505±75) MeV with (140±30) nC of charge from a …

Extreme states of matter on Earth and in space

VE Fortov - Physics-Uspekhi, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is concerned with the results of studies into the behavior of substances at
ultimately high pressures and temperatures obtainable by way of kinetic or electromagnetic …