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Production of ion beams in high-power laser–plasma interactions and their applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2004

F. PEGORARO ,
S. ATZENI ,
M. BORGHESI ,
S. BULANOV ,
T. ESIRKEPOV ,
J. HONRUBIA ,
Y. KATO ,
V. KHOROSHKOV ,
K. NISHIHARA  and
T. TAJIMA
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F. PEGORARO
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Pisa and Instituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Pisa, Italy
S. ATZENI
Affiliation:
Energetics Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Instituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Rome, Italy
M. BORGHESI
Affiliation:
Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
S. BULANOV
Affiliation:
General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto-fu, Japan
T. ESIRKEPOV
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto-fu, Japan
J. HONRUBIA
Affiliation:
Escuela Tenica Superior Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Y. KATO
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto-fu, Japan
V. KHOROSHKOV
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
K. NISHIHARA
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
T. TAJIMA
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto-fu, Japan
M. TEMPORAL
Affiliation:
Escuela Tenica Superior Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
O. WILLI
Affiliation:
Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Abstract

Energetic ion beams are produced during the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity, short laser pulses with plasmas. These laser-produced ion beams have important applications ranging from the fast ignition of thermonuclear targets to proton imaging, deep proton lithography, medical physics, and injectors for conventional accelerators. Although the basic physical mechanisms of ion beam generation in the plasma produced by the laser pulse interaction with the target are common to all these applications, each application requires a specific optimization of the ion beam properties, that is, an appropriate choice of the target design and of the laser pulse intensity, shape, and duration.

Keywords

AccelerationIon beamsLaser pulse interactionProton imagingThermonuclear targets
Type
International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 19 - 24
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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