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Ponderomotive ion acceleration in dense plasmas at super-high laser intensities

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Short laser pulses at super-high intensities such as those proposed in the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project open new prospects for efficient acceleration of ions in overdense plasmas. A simple analytical model and numerical simulations demonstrate that pulses with intensities exceeding 1022 W/cm2 may efficiently accelerate ions to high energies up to a few GeV. Maximum ion energy and the energy spectrum of the accelerated ions can be tuned by an appropriate choice of laser pulse intensity and duration at a given plasma density distribution.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, École Polytechnique, CNRS, 91761, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    N. Naumova

  2. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany

    T. Schlegel

  3. Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, Université Bordeaux 1, CEA, CNRS, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

    V. T. Tikhonchuk

  4. Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    C. Labaune

  5. Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    I. V. Sokolov

  6. Institut de la Lumière Extrême, ENSTA, École Polytechnique, CNRS, 91761, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    G. Mourou

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Naumova, N., Schlegel, T., Tikhonchuk, V. et al. Ponderomotive ion acceleration in dense plasmas at super-high laser intensities. Eur. Phys. J. D 55, 393–398 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00250-2

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