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 …

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 …

Laser-driven proton scaling laws and new paths towards energy increase

J Fuchs, P Antici, E d'Humieres, E Lefebvre… - Nature physics, 2006‏ - nature.com
The past few years have seen remarkable progress in the development of laser-based
particle accelerators. The ability to produce ultrabright beams of multi-megaelectronvolt …

Ultralow emittance, multi-MeV proton beams from a laser virtual-cathode plasma accelerator

TE Cowan, J Fuchs, H Ruhl, A Kemp, P Audebert… - Physical review …, 2004‏ - APS
The laminarity of high-current multi-MeV proton beams produced by irradiating thin metallic
foils with ultraintense lasers has been measured. For proton energies><? format?> 10 MeV …

Generating High-Current Monoenergetic Proton Beams by a Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse<? format?> in the Phase-Stable Acceleration Regime

XQ Yan, C Lin, ZM Sheng, ZY Guo, BC Liu, YR Lu… - Physical review …, 2008‏ - APS
A new ion acceleration method, namely, phase-stable acceleration, using circularly-
polarized laser pulses is proposed. When the initial target density n 0 and thickness D satisfy …

Fast ion generation by high-intensity laser irradiation of solid targets and applications

M Borghesi, J Fuchs, SV Bulanov… - Fusion science and …, 2006‏ - Taylor & Francis
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) …

Scaling of proton acceleration driven by petawatt-laser–plasma interactions

L Robson, PT Simpson, RJ Clarke, KWD Ledingham… - Nature physics, 2007‏ - nature.com
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 …

Applications for nuclear phenomena generated by ultra-intense lasers

KWD Ledingham, P McKenna, RP Singhal - Science, 2003‏ - science.org
The amplification of laser light to generate powers large enough to affect the nucleus has
been the desire of scientists since the invention of the laser 40 years ago. Many lasers …