Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities.

ABSTRACT: Laser-driven ion sources are a rapidly developing technology producing high energy, high peak current beams. Their suitability for applications, such as compact medical accelerators, motivates development of robust acceleration schemes using widely available repetitive ultraintense femtosecond lasers. These applications not only require high beam energy, but also place demanding requirements on the source stability and controllability. This can be seriously affected by the laser temporal contrast, precluding the replication of ion acceleration performance on independent laser systems with otherwise similar parameters. Here, we present the experimental generation of >60 MeV protons and >30 MeV u^-1 carbon ions from sub-micrometre thickness Formvar foils irradiated with laser inten

SUBMITTER: Dover NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10011581 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature