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 …

Hot electrons transverse refluxing in ultraintense laser-solid interactions

S Buffechoux, J Psikal, M Nakatsutsumi, L Romagnani… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We have analyzed the coupling of ultraintense lasers (at∼ 2× 10 19 W/cm 2) with solid foils
of limited transverse extent (<? format?>∼<? format?> 10 s of μ m) by monitoring the …

Effect of small focus on electron heating and proton acceleration in ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions

NP Dover, M Nishiuchi, H Sakaki, K Kondo… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Acceleration of particles from the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses up to 5× 10 21 W
cm− 2 with thin foils is investigated experimentally. The electron beam parameters varied …

Relativistic electron streaming instabilities modulate proton beams accelerated in laser-plasma interactions

S Göde, C Rödel, K Zeil, R Mishra, M Gauthier… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We report experimental evidence that multi-MeV protons accelerated in relativistic laser-
plasma interactions are modulated by strong filamentary electromagnetic fields. Modulations …

Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

K Jiang, TW Huang, R Li, MY Yu, HB Zhuo, SZ Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many
high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity …

Comparative spectra and efficiencies of ions laser-accelerated forward from the front and rear surfaces of thin solid foils

J Fuchs, Y Sentoku, E d'Humières, TE Cowan… - Physics of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The maximum energy of protons that are accelerated forward by high-intensity, short-pulse
lasers from either the front or rear surfaces of thin metal foils is compared for a large range of …

Efficient laser-driven proton and bremsstrahlung generation from cluster-assembled foam targets

I Prencipe, J Metzkes-Ng, A Pazzaglia… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction between intense 30 fs laser pulses and foam-coated 1.5 μm-thick Al foils in
the relativistic regime (up to 5× 10 20 W cm− 2) is studied to optimize the laser energy …

Probing ultrafast magnetic-field generation by current filamentation instability in femtosecond relativistic laser-matter interactions

G Raj, O Kononenko, MF Gilljohann, A Doche… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
The current filamentation instability is a key phenomenon underpinning various processes in
astrophysics, laboratory laser-plasma, and beam-plasma experiments. Here we show that …

Fast-electron transport and induced heating in aluminum foils

JJ Santos, A Debayle, P Nicolaï, V Tikhonchuk… - Physics of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Beams of fast electrons have been generated from the ultra-intense laser interaction (⁠ 6×
10 19 W cm− 2⁠, 40 fs⁠) with aluminum foil targets. The dynamics of fast-electron …