Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities

Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities

High energy ions were accelerated by extreme space charge fields induced during relativistic transparency and optimised by tuning the target thickness to the individual laser parameters

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Main Authors:	Nicholas P. Dover, Tim Ziegler, Stefan Assenbaum, Constantin Bernert, Stefan Bock, Florian-Emanuel Brack, Thomas E. Cowan, Emma J. Ditter, Marco Garten, Lennart Gaus, Ilja Goethel, George S. Hicks, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Thomas Kluge, James K. Koga, Akira Kon, Kotaro Kondo, Stephan Kraft, Florian Kroll, Hazel F. Lowe, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Tatsuhiko Miyatake, Zulfikar Najmudin, Thomas Püschel, Martin Rehwald, Marvin Reimold, Hironao Sakaki, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Keiichiro Shiokawa, Marvin E. P. Umlandt, Ulrich Schramm, Karl Zeil, Mamiko Nishiuchi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Publishing Group 2023-03-01
Series:	Light: Science & Applications
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01083-9

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01083-9