High-quality monoenergetic proton generation by sequential radiation pressure and bubble acceleration

Two-dimensional particle-in cell simulation shows that protons in a small target located in an underdense high-mass plasma can be accelerated by the radiation pressure of a short circularly polarized laser pulse as well as by the wake bubble field of the laser in the background plasma. The radiation...

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Main Authors: Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang, Zhengming Sheng, M. Y. Yu, J. Cary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2009-12-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.121301