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Laser-driven particle acceleration at near critical density plasmas

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Recent developments of high-power laser systems have enabled the production of high energy proton and electron beams. Here, we studied the laser-driven particle acceleration at near-critical density plasma by employing a 100 TW ultra-fast intense laser pulse through two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The strong magnetic field production and the energy of accelerated particles is numerically demonstrated and shows that there is a dependence on laser focusing position and electron number density. 2D PIC simulation results show that by using 100 TW table-top laser systems, it is possible to produce 120 MeV protons and 250 MeV electrons with a small angular distribution.

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Acknowledgements

We also would like to thank Sarah North for proofreading. This work was in part funded by the UK EPSRC Grants EP/G054950/1, EP/G056803/1, EP/G055165/1 EP/M018156/1 and EP/ M022463/1.

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Culfa, O. Laser-driven particle acceleration at near critical density plasmas. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 194 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00208-2

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