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

Natalia Naumova; T. Schlegel; V.T. Tikhonchuk; C. Labaune; I.V. Sokolov; Gérard Mourou

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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Journal articles

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Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Optics [physics.optics]

Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]

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