Radiation pressure acceleration: The factors limiting maximum attainable ion energy

Radiation Pressure Acceleration: the factors limiting maximum attainable ion energy

S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, S. V. Bulanov, 3 T. Zh. Esirkepov, M. Kando, F. Pegoraro, and W. P. Leemans 5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA QuBS, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan A. M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics RAS, Moscow, 119991, Russia Physics Department, University of Pisa and Istituto Nazionale di ...

Enhancement of maximum attainable ion energy in the radiation pressure acceleration regime using a guiding structure.

Radiation pressure acceleration is a highly efficient mechanism of laser-driven ion acceleration, with the laser energy almost totally transferrable to the ions in the relativistic regime. There is a fundamental limit on the maximum attainable ion energy, which is determined by the group velocity of the laser. In the case of tightly focused laser pulses, which are utilized to get the highest in...

Radiation Pressure effects on ion Acceleration on the GEMINI laser

We report on the absolute calibration of amicro channel plate (MCP) detector, installed asdetector in a Thomson parabola spectrometer. Thecalibration delivers the relation between a registeredcount numbers in the CCD camera (on which the MCPphosphor screen is imaged) as a result of the impact ofan ion beam onto the MCP. The particle response ofthe whole detection...

AFRL-AFOSR-UK-TR-2017-0015 High energy ion acceleration by extreme laser radiation pressure

Heavy ion acceleration in the radiation pressure acceleration and breakout afterburner regimes

We present a theoretical study of heavy ion acceleration from ultrathin (20 nm) gold foil irradiated by high-intensity sub-picosecond lasers. Using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, three laser systems are modeled that cover the range between femtosecond and picosecond pulses. By varying the laser pulse duration we observe a transition from radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) to t...