New methods for high current fast ion beam production by laser-driven acceleration

0377095 - FZÚ 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Margarone, Daniele - Krása, Josef - Prokůpek, Jan - Velyhan, Andriy - Torrisi, L. - Picciotto, A. - Giuffrida, L. - Gammino, S. - Cirrone, P. - Cutroneo, M. - Romano, F. - Serra, E. - Mangione, A. - Rosinski, M. - Parys, P. - Ryc, L. - Limpouch, J. - Láska, Leoš - Jungwirth, Karel - Ullschmied, Jiří - Mocek, Tomáš - Korn, Georg - Rus, Bedřich
New methods for high current fast ion beam production by laser-driven acceleration.
Review of Scientific Instruments. Roč. 83, č. 2 (2012), "02B307-1"-"02B307-3". ISSN 0034-6748. E-ISSN 1089-7623
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP205/11/1165; GA MŠMT(CZ) LC528; GA MŠMT ED1.1.00/02.0061; GA MŠMT EE.2.3.20.0087; GA MŠMT ED2.1.00/01.0027
Grant - others:ELI Beamlines(XE) CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0061; OP VK 2 LaserGen(XE) CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0087; HILASE(XE) CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0027
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100523; CEZ:AV0Z20430508
Keywords : ion beam * laser-driven acceleration
Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers
Impact factor: 1.602, year: 2012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3669796

An overview of the last experimental campaigns on laser-driven ion acceleration performed at the PALS facility in Prague is given. Both the 2 TW, sub-nanosecond iodine laser system and the 20 TW, emtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser, recently installed at PALS, are used along our experiments performed in the intensity range 1016-1019 W/cm2. The main goal of our studies was to generate high energy, high current ion streams at relatively low laser intensities. The discussed experimental investigations show promising results in terms of maximum ion energy and current density which make the laser-accelerated ion beams a candidate for new-generation ion sources to be employed in medicine, nuclear physics, matter physics and industry.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0209347