Proton acceleration enhanced by a plasma jet in expanding foils undergoing relativistic transparency

Proton acceleration enhanced by a plasma jet in expanding foils undergoing relativistic transparency

Ion acceleration driven by the interaction of an ultraintense (2 × 10 ^20 W cm ^−2 ) laser pulse with an ultrathin ( $\leqslant 40$ nm) foil target is experimentally and numerically investigated. Protons accelerated by sheath fields and via laser radiation pressure are angularly separated and identi...

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Main Authors: H W Powell, M King, R J Gray, D A MacLellan, B Gonzalez-Izquierdo, L C Stockhausen, G Hicks, N P Dover, D R Rusby, D C Carroll, H Padda, R Torres, S Kar, R J Clarke, I O Musgrave, Z Najmudin, M Borghesi, D Neely, P McKenna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Subjects:
laser–plasma interactions
relativistic transparency
ion acceleration
plasma jet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103033

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