15–16 Oct 2015
Europe/Zurich timezone

Generation of an ultrashort monoenergetic proton bunch in an instability-free regime by a single-cycle laser pulse

16 Oct 2015, 09:50
20m

Speaker

Xuequing YAN (State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871)

Description

Prompted by the possibility1 to produce high energy single cycle laser pulse in the tens of PW intensity (1024W=cm2), we have investigated laser-matter interaction in the few optical cycle and ultra relativistic intensity regime. A particularly interesting instability-free regime for ion production was revealed leading to the efficient production of short(fs) monoenergetic ions with a peak energy greater than GeV. Of paramount importance, the interaction is absent of RTI and hole boring plaguing techniques as Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) and Radiation Pressure Acceleration (RPA).

Primary author

M.L. Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871)

Co-authors

Gerard MOUROU (Laboratory of Applied Optics ; International Centre for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology (IZEST)) Toshiki Tajima (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; International Centre for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology (IZEST)) Xuequing YAN (State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871)

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