Laser acceleration of ion bunches at the front surface of overdense plasmas

Year: 2005

Authors: Macchi A., Cattani F., Liseykina T.V., Cornolti F.

Autors Affiliation: Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM) and polyLAB, Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi,” Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy

Abstract: The acceleration of ions in the interaction of high intensity laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated with particle-in-cell simulations. For circular polarization of the laser pulses, high-density ion bunches moving into the plasma are generated at the laser-plasma interaction surface. A simple analytical model accounts for the numerical observations and provides scaling laws for the ion bunch energy and generation time as a function of pulse intensity and plasma density.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 94 (16)      Pages from: 165003-1  to: 165003-4

More Information: – premiato dal CNR nell’ambito dell’iniziativa “Incentivazioni al personale anno 2005”
– selezionato per la rivista virtuale “Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science”
KeyWords: laser-plasma interactions; ion acceleration by laser beams; particle-in-cell simulations
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.165003

Citations: 493
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