Ponderomotive ion acceleration in dense plasmas at super-high laser intensities

Natalia Naumova 1 T. Schlegel 2 V.T. Tikhonchuk 3 C. Labaune 4 I.V. Sokolov 5 Gérard Mourou 6
1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 GSI - Helmholtz zentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
3 CELIA - Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications
4 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses
5 SPRL - Space Physics Research Laboratory [Ann Arbor]
6 ILE - Institut de la Lumiére Extrême
Abstract : Short laser pulses at super-high intensities such as those proposed in the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project open new prospects for efficient acceleration of ions in overdense plasmas. A simple analytical model and numerical simulations demonstrate that pulses with intensities exceeding 10 22 W/cm2 may efficiently accelerate ions to high energies up to a few GeV. Maximum ion energy and the energy spectrum of the accelerated ions can be tuned by an appropriate choice of laser pulse intensity and duration at a given plasma density distribution. © 2009 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Natalia Naumova, T. Schlegel, V.T. Tikhonchuk, C. Labaune, I.V. Sokolov, et al.. Ponderomotive ion acceleration in dense plasmas at super-high laser intensities. The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, EDP Sciences, 2009, 55 (2), pp.393-398. ⟨10.1140/epjd/e2009-00250-2⟩. ⟨hal-00838487⟩

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