Abstract
Optimal regimes of proton acceleration in the interaction of short high-power laser pulses with thin foils and low-density targets are determined by means of 3D numerical simulation. It is demonstrated that the maximum proton energy can be increased by using low-density targets in which ions from the front surface of the target are accelerated most efficiently. It is shown using a particular example that, for the same laser pulse, the energy of protons accelerated from a low-density target can be increased by one-third as compared to a solid-state target.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
H. Daido, M. Nishiuchi, and A. S. Pirozhkov, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 056401 (2012).
A. Macchi, M. Borghesi, and M. Passoni, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85, 751 (2013).
S. A. Gaillard, T. Kluge, K. A. Flippo, M. Bussmann, B. Gall, T. Lockard, M. Geissel, D. T. Offermann, M. Schollmeier, Y. Sentoku, and T. E. Cowan, Phys. Plasmas 18, 056710 (2011).
T. Esirkepov, M. Yamagiwa, and T. Tajima, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 105001 (2006).
S. S. Bulanov, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans, Phys. Plasmas 19, 093112 (2012).
E. d’Humieres, A. V. Brantov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, and V. Tickhonchuk, Phys. Plasmas 20, 023103 (2013).
V. Yu. Bychenkov, A. V. Brantov, and G. Mourou, Laser Part. Beams 32, 605 (2014).
A. V. Brantov, E. A. Govras, V. Yu. Bychenkov, and W. Rozmus, Phys. Rev. STAPB 18, 021301 (2015).
A. V. Brantov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, and V. Rozmus, Quant. Electron. 37, 863 (2007).
S. S. Bulanov, A. Brantov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalinchenko, T. Matsuoka, P. Rousseau, S. Reed, V. Yanovsky, K. Krushelnick, D. W. Litzenberg, and A. Maksimchuk, Med. Phys. 35, 1770 (2008).
T. Nakamura, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, and M. Kando, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135002 (2010).
K. I. Popov, W. Rozmus, V. Yu. Bychenkov, N. Naseri, C. E. Capjack, and A. V. Brantov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195002 (2010).
S. S. Bulanov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalinchenko, D. W. Litzenberg, T. Matsuoka, A. G. R. Thomas, L. Willingale, V. Yanovsky, K. Krushelnick, and A. Maksimchuk, Phys. Plasmas 17, 043105 (2010).
S. V. Bulanov, D. V. Dylov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, E. E. Kamenets, and D. V. Sokolov, Plasma Phys. Rep. 31, 369 (2005).
A. V. Brantov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, K. I. Popov, R. Fedosejevs, W. Rozmus, and T. Schlegel, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 653, 62 (2011).
M. Passoni, A. Zani, A. Sgattoni, D. Dellasega, A. Macchi, I. Prencipe, V. Floquet, P. Martin, T. V. Liseykina, and T. Ceccotti, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 56, 045001 (2014).
A. V. Korzhimanov, A. A. Gonoskov, A. V. Kim, and A. M. Sergeev, JETP Lett. 86, 577 (2007).
E. d’Humieres, P. Antici, M. Glesser, J. Boeker, F. Cardelli, S. Chen, J. L. Feugeas, F. Filippi, M. Gauthier, A. Levy, P. Nicolae, H. Pepin, L. Romagnani, M. Sciscio, V. T. Tikhonchuk, O. Willi, J. C. Kieffer, and J. Fuchs, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 55, 124025 (2013).
J. Psikal, O. Klimo, S. Weber, and D. Margarone, Phys. Plasmas 21, 073108 (2014).
K. Matsukado, T. Esirkepov, K. Kinoshita, H. Daido, T. Utsumi, Z. Li, A. Fukumi, Y. Hayashi, S. Orimo, M. Nishiuchi, S. V. Bulanov, T. Tajima, A. Noda, Y. Iwashita, T. Shirai, T. Takeuchi, S. Nakamura, A. Yamazaki, M. Ikegami, T. Mihara, A. Morita, M. Uesaka, K. Yoshii, T. Watanabe, T. Hosokai, A. Zhidkov, A. Ogata, Y. Wada, and T. Kubota, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 215001 (2003).
D. Jung, B. J. Albright, L. Yin, D. C. Gautier, R. Shah, S. Palaniyappan, S. Letzring, B. Dromey, H.-C. Wu, T. Shimada, R. P. Johnson, M. Roth, J. C. Fernandez, D. Habs, and B. M. Hegelich, New J. Phys. 15, 023007 (2013).
A. V. Brantov and V. Yu. Bychenkov, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 53, 731 (2013).
A. Macchi, A. Sgattoni, S. Sinigardi, M. Borghesi, and M. Passoni, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 55, 124020 (2013).
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media (Nauka, Moscow, 1982; Pergamon, New York, 1984).
D. V. Romanov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, W. Rozmus, C. E. Capjack, and R. Fedosejevs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 215004 (2004).
S. C. Wilks, A. B. Langdon, T. E. Cowan, M. Roth, M. Singh, S. Hatchett, M. H. Key, D. Pennington, A. MacKinnon, and R. A. Snavely, Phys. Plasmas 8, 542 (2001).
H. B. Zhuo, Z. L. Chen, W. Yu, Z. M. Sheng, M. Y. Yu, Z. Jin, and R. Kodama, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065003 (2010).
A. V. Kuznetsov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, E. E. Kamenets, and S. V. Bulanov, Plasma Phys. Rep. 27, 211 (2001).
V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and S. V. Tolokonnikov, JETP 88, 1137 (1999).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © A.V. Brantov, V.Yu. Bychenkov, 2015, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 542–547.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Brantov, A.V., Bychenkov, V.Y. On the feasibility of increasing the energy of laser-accelerated protons by using low-density targets. Plasma Phys. Rep. 41, 501–506 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X1506001X
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X1506001X