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

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...

Generation of heavy ion beams using femtosecond laser pulses in the target normal sheath acceleration and radiation pressure acceleration regimes

Proton and heavy ion acceleration facilities for space radiation research.

The particles and energies commonly used for medium energy nuclear physics and heavy charged particle radiobiology and radiotherapy at particle accelerators are in the charge and energy range of greatest interest for space radiation health. In this article we survey some of the particle accelerator facilities in the United States and around the world that are being used for space radiation heal...

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 ...

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...