Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators
This article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is g...
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| author | Carlos Salgado-López Jon Imanol Apiñaniz José Luis Henares José Antonio Pérez-Hernández Diego de Luis Luca Volpe Giancarlo Gatti |
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| description | This article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is guaranteed by the use of a microchannel plate (MCP) as active particle detector. The angular resolving power, which is achieved due to an array of entrance pinholes, can be simply adjusted by modifying the geometry of the experiment and/or the pinhole array itself. The analysis procedure allows for different ion traces to cross on the detector plane, which greatly enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the detector. A full characterization of the TP magnetic field is implemented into a relativistic code developed for the trajectory calculation of each pinhole beamlet. We describe the first test of the spectrometer at the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi>PW</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> VEGA 3 laser facility at CLPU, Salamanca (Spain), where up to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>15</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi>MeV</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> protons and carbon ions from a <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> laser-irradiated Al foil are detected. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ffe740f512a94e5aba0560671a0cb8652023-11-23T09:15:31ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-04-01229323910.3390/s22093239Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion AcceleratorsCarlos Salgado-López0Jon Imanol Apiñaniz1José Luis Henares2José Antonio Pérez-Hernández3Diego de Luis4Luca Volpe5Giancarlo Gatti6Centro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainCentro de Láseres Pulsados (CLPU), Edificio M5, Parque Científico USAL, C/Adaja, 8, 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, SpainThis article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is guaranteed by the use of a microchannel plate (MCP) as active particle detector. The angular resolving power, which is achieved due to an array of entrance pinholes, can be simply adjusted by modifying the geometry of the experiment and/or the pinhole array itself. The analysis procedure allows for different ion traces to cross on the detector plane, which greatly enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the detector. A full characterization of the TP magnetic field is implemented into a relativistic code developed for the trajectory calculation of each pinhole beamlet. We describe the first test of the spectrometer at the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi>PW</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> VEGA 3 laser facility at CLPU, Salamanca (Spain), where up to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>15</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi>MeV</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> protons and carbon ions from a <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mspace width="0.166667em"></mspace><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> laser-irradiated Al foil are detected.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/9/3239plama diagnosticscharged-particle spectroscopyion beamsinstrumentation |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Salgado-López Jon Imanol Apiñaniz José Luis Henares José Antonio Pérez-Hernández Diego de Luis Luca Volpe Giancarlo Gatti Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators Sensors plama diagnostics charged-particle spectroscopy ion beams instrumentation |
| title | Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators |
| title_full | Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators |
| title_fullStr | Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators |
| title_full_unstemmed | Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators |
| title_short | Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators |
| title_sort | angular resolved thomson parabola spectrometer for laser driven ion accelerators |
| topic | plama diagnostics charged-particle spectroscopy ion beams instrumentation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/9/3239 |
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