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Generation of high-quality charged particle beams during the acceleration of ions by high-power laser radiation

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Numerous applications of protons and ions accelerated by laser radiation require charged particle beams of high quality (i.e., such that the ratio of the energy width of the beam to its mean energy is small). In order to produce beams with controlled quality, it is proposed to use two-layer targets in which the first layer consists of heavy multicharged ions and the second layer (thin and narrow in the transverse direction) consists of protons. The possibility of generating a high-quality proton beam in the interaction of ultraintense laser radiation with such a two-layer target is demonstrated by two-and three-dimensional particle-in-cell computer simulations.

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  1. Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 117942, Russia

    S. V. Bulanov

  2. Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI-Kansai), 619-0215, Kizu, Kyoto, Japan

    S. V. Bulanov, Y. Kato & T. Tajima

  3. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    T. Zh. Esirkepov, F. F. Kamenets & A. V. Kuznetsov

  4. Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    T. Zh. Esirkepov & K. Nishihara

  5. Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia and Dip. Fisica, Università di Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    F. Pegoraro

  6. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ul. Bol'shaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117259, Russia

    V. S. Khoroshkov

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 28, No. 12, 2002, pp. 1059–1076.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Bulanov, Esirkepov, Kamenets, Kato, Kuznetsov, Nishihara, Pegoraro, Tajima, Khoroshkov.

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Bulanov, S.V., Esirkepov, T.Z., Kamenets, F.F. et al. Generation of high-quality charged particle beams during the acceleration of ions by high-power laser radiation. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 975–991 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1528239

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