Efficient monoenergetic proton beam from ultra-fast laser interaction with nanostructured targets

The broad energy spectrum of laser-accelerated proton beams is the most important difficulty associated with such particle sources on the way to future applications such as medical therapy, proton imaging, inertial fusion, and high-energy physics. The generation of proton beams with enhanced monoene...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics of plasmas 2018-03, Vol.25 (3)
1. Verfasser: Fazeli, R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The broad energy spectrum of laser-accelerated proton beams is the most important difficulty associated with such particle sources on the way to future applications such as medical therapy, proton imaging, inertial fusion, and high-energy physics. The generation of proton beams with enhanced monoenergetic features through an ultra-intense laser interaction with optimized nanostructured targets is reported. Targets were irradiated by 40 fs laser pulses of intensity 5.5×1020 W cm−2 and wavelength 1 μm. The results of multi-parametric Particle-in-Cell calculations showed that proton beams with considerably reduced energy spread can be obtained by using the proposed nanostructured target. At optimized target dimensions, the proton spectrum was found to exhibit a narrow peak at about 63 MeV with a relative energy spread of ΔE/Epeak∼ 5% which is efficiently lower than what is expected for unstructured double layer targets (∼70%).
ISSN:1070-664X
1089-7674
DOI:10.1063/1.5022066