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 …

Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock

CAJ Palmer, NP Dover, I Pogorelsky, M Babzien… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We report on the acceleration of impurity-free quasimononenergetic proton beams from an
initially gaseous hydrogen target driven by an intense infrared (λ= 10 μ m) laser. The front …

Self-Organizing GeV, Nanocoulomb, Collimated Proton Beam <?format ?>from Laser Foil Interaction at

XQ Yan, HC Wu, ZM Sheng, JE Chen… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We report on a self-organizing, quasistable regime of laser proton acceleration, producing 1
GeV nanocoulomb proton bunches from laser foil interaction at an intensity of 7× 10 21 …

Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron–positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

D Del Sorbo, DR Blackman, R Capdessus… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The radiation pressure of next generation ultra-high intensity (> 10 23 W cm− 2) lasers could
efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrodynamic …

Relative biological effectiveness of pulsed and continuous 20 MeV protons for micronucleus induction in 3D human reconstructed skin tissue

TE Schmid, G Dollinger, V Hable, C Greubel… - Radiotherapy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Laser accelerated radiotherapy is a prospect for cancer
treatment with proton and/or carbon ion beams that is currently under fast development. In …

Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging

TM Ostermayr, C Kreuzer, FS Englbrecht… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Radiographic imaging with x-rays and protons is an omnipresent tool in basic research and
applications in industry, material science and medical diagnostics. The information …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid crystal films as on-demand, variable thickness (50–5000 nm) targets for intense lasers

PL Poole, CD Andereck, DW Schumacher… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a new type of target for intense laser-matter experiments that offers
significant advantages over those currently in use. The targets consist of a liquid crystal film …

Enhanced laser ion acceleration from mass-limited foils

T Kluge, W Enghardt, SD Kraft, U Schramm, K Zeil… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports on simulations of solid mass-limited targets (MLT) via electrodynamic two-
dimensional, three velocity component particle-in-cell simulations. The interaction with long …

[HTML][HTML] Moderate repetition rate ultra-intense laser targets and optics using variable thickness liquid crystal films

PL Poole, C Willis, GE Cochran, RT Hanna… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid crystal films are variable thickness, planar targets for ultra-intense laser matter
experiments such as ion acceleration. Their target qualities also make them ideal for high …