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Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Towards Radiobiology and Medicine

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The first laser ion acceleration experiments have begun with a method based on the TNSA (target normal sheath acceleration) that did not have an adiabatic process of the accelerating structure created by laser. A great deal of efforts have been dedicated to ever increase the adiabatic process of the accelerating structure with the ions since then. This acquiring of adiabaticity may be done by reducing the group velocity of the laser significantly to match that of ions, or to increase the ion velocity as fast as possible in order to match the fast accelerating structure created by laser. The methods of RPA (radiation pressure acceleration) and CAIL (coherent acceleration of ions by laser) belong to the latter. Finally, the recent entry of the single-cycle laser pulse acceleration (SCPA) marks another notch in the progress to make ion acceleration condition even more accessible and the acceleration results far more attractive by eradicating the oscillatory interference effects.

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Acknowledgments

The work has been supported by the Norman Rostoker Fund. I thank Dr. A. Giulietti’s encouragement throughout this work. Collaboration and discussions with Drs. M. Zhou, X.Q. Yan, G. Mourou, J. Wheeler and I.J. Kim are deeply appreciated. I dedicate this paper to the memory of the late Professor Norman Rostoker, who made education of me and remained a source of inspiration. In the final stage of the preparation of this paper (in fact the last weeks) I learned the passing of Professor Wolfgang Sandner, who was serving as Co-Chair of ICUIL (International Committee for Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers) among other leadership roles (while I serve as Chair of ICUIL). I am dedicating this paper also to the memory of Dr. Sandner.

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Tajima, T. (2016). Recent Progress in Laser Ion Acceleration. In: Giulietti, A. (eds) Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Towards Radiobiology and Medicine. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31563-8_13

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