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Improving proton acceleration with circularly polarized intense laser pulse by radial confinement with heavy ions

Source: Phys. Plasmas 17, 013106 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3302536

Published 28 January 2010

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 41.75.Jv
    Laser-driven acceleration of charged-particle beams
  • 52.38.Kd
    Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions
  • 52.65.Rr
    Particle-in-cell method (plasma simulation)
  • YEAR: 2010
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L. G. Huang,1 A. L. Lei,1,2 J. H. Bin,3 Y. Bai,1 Wei Yu,1 M. Y. Yu,4 and T. E. Cowan2
1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
2Institute of Radiation Physics, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
3Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany and Department für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
4Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Energetic proton acceleration from interaction of intense short circularly polarized laser pulse with a sandwich target is investigated using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The sandwich target consists of a hydrogen-plasma layer surrounded by carbon-plasma layers. It is found that the transverse electric fields generated at the plasma layer interfaces efficiently confine the longitudinally accelerated protons to within the hydrogen-plasma layer such that they are collimated and have smaller energy spread compared with a pure proton layer target. The proton energy spectrum can be controlled by adjusting the target parameters, in particular the width of the hydrogen-plasma layer and the density of the carbon-plasma layer. ©2010 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 9 November 2009; accepted 28 December 2009; published 28 January 2010
Permalink: http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/17/013106/1

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