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- Title
HIGH BRIGHTNESS LASER INDUCED MULTI-MEV ELECTRON/PROTON SOURCES.
- Authors
GIULIETTI, D.; BRESCHI, E.; GALIMBERTI, M.; GIULIETTI, A.; GIZZI, L. A.; KOESTER, P.; LABATE, L.; TOMASSINI, P.; MARTIN, PH.; CECCOTTI, T.; DE OLIVERA, P.; MONOT, P.; BORGHESI, M.; ROMAGNANI, L.; KAR, S.; BERTOLUCCI, S.; CALVETTI, M.; SCHIAVI, A.; WILLI, O.
- Abstract
The chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique has opened new perspectives in the radiation-matter interaction studies using ultra-short laser pulses at ultra-relativistic intensities. In particular the original idea, proposed by Tajima and Dawson, of accelerating electrons by the huge electric fields of plasma waves which develop in the wake of a laser pulse propagating in a plasma, become feasible. Some laboratories all over the world have produced by such a technique collimated electron busts of hundreds of MeV along acceleration lengths of a few hundreds of microns. In other experiments, using thin solid targets, intense bursts of energetic protons have been at the same time detected. The proton acceleration mechanism is essentially based on the Coulomb force appearing at the thin solid target surface as a consequence of the previous escape of the energetic electrons from the target. In the paper some experimental results will be presented as well as the opportunities the INFN PLASMONX project will offer in this research field at LNF.
- Subjects
ELECTRONS; PROTONS; PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); RADIATION; ELECTRIC fields; PHYSICS
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics A: Particles & Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 22, p3810
- ISSN
0217-751X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217751X07037445