Detailed Experimental Study of Ion Acceleration by Interaction of an Ultra-Short Intense Laser with an Underdense Plasma

S. Kahaly 1, 2 F. Sylla 1, 3 Agustin Lifschitz 1 Alessandro Flacco 1 M. Veltcheva 1 Victor Malka 1
1 SPL - Sources compactes de Particules pour Lasers & Applications
2 ELI-ALPS
3 SourceLAB SAS - SourceLAB SAS
Abstract : Ion acceleration from intense (I lambda(2) > 1018 Wcm(-2) mu m(2)) laser-plasma interaction is experimentally studied within a wide range of He gas densities. Focusing an ultrashort pulse (duration. ion plasma period) on a newly designed submillimetric gas jet system, enabled us to inhibit total evacuation of electrons from the central propagation channel reducing the radial ion acceleration associated with ponderomotive Coulomb explosion, a mechanism predominant in the long pulse scenario. New ion acceleration mechanism have been unveiled in this regime leading to non-Maxwellian quasi monoenergetic features in the ion energy spectra. The emitted nonthermal ion bunches show a new scaling of the ion peak energy with plasma density. The scaling identified in this new regime differs from previously reported studies.
Keywords : RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS PULSE DRIVEN IONIZATION WAKE WAKEFIELD DYNAMICS BEAMS ATOMS FIELD
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S. Kahaly, F. Sylla, Agustin Lifschitz, Alessandro Flacco, M. Veltcheva, et al.. Detailed Experimental Study of Ion Acceleration by Interaction of an Ultra-Short Intense Laser with an Underdense Plasma. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, 6, pp.31647. ⟨10.1038/srep31647⟩. ⟨hal-01394290⟩

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