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 …

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 …

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 …

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 report on simultaneous measurements of backward-and forward-accelerated protons
spectra when an ultrahigh intensity (<? format?>∼<? format?> 5× 10 18 W/cm 2), ultrahigh …

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 …

Outstanding progress has been made in high-power laser technology in the last 10 years
with laser powers reaching petawatt (PW) values. At present, there are 15 PW lasers built or …

Invited Review Article: “Hands-on” laser-driven ion acceleration: A primer for laser-driven source
development and potential applications | Review of Scientific Instruments | AIP Publishing Skip …