Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime
Abstract
An intense laser-plasma interaction regime of the generation of high density ultrashort relativistic ion beams is suggested. When the radiation pressure is dominant, the laser energy is transformed efficiently into the energy of fast ions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175003
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0405083
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..92q5003E
- Keywords:
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- 52.38.Kd;
- 29.25.-t;
- 41.75.Lx;
- 52.65.Rr;
- Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions;
- Particle sources and targets;
- Other advanced accelerator concepts;
- Particle-in-cell method;
- Physics - Plasma Physics;
- Physics - Accelerator Physics;
- Physics - Computational Physics;
- Physics - Space Physics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 4 figures