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 …

Laser plasma-based particle accelerators attract great interest in fields where conventional
accelerators reach limits based on size, cost or beam parameters. Despite the fact that …

The charge separation effects in the collisionless plasma expansion into a vacuum are
studied in great detail. Accurate results are obtained concerning the structure of the ion front …

The laminarity of high-current multi-MeV proton beams produced by irradiating thin metallic
foils with ultraintense lasers has been measured. For proton energies><? format?> 10 MeV …

Acceleration of particles by intense laser–plasma interactions represents a rapidly evolving
field of interest, as highlighted by the recent demonstration,,, of laser-driven relativistic …

We investigate the influence of the laser prepulse due to amplified spontaneous emission on
the acceleration of protons in thin-foil experiments. We show that changing the prepulse …

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 …

The Review covers recent progress in laser-matter interaction at intensities above 10 18 W
cm− 2. At these intensities electrons swing in the laser pulse with relativistic energies. The …