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Reduction of X-ray generation in high-intensity laser ion acceleration

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In this paper, we report on measurements of bremsstrahlung in laser ion acceleration experiments from ultra-thin, polymer-based target foils. The influence of laser polarization on the generated \(\gamma\) radiation, the maximum achievable proton energy and the total proton number is investigated. A clear benefit in terms of \(\gamma\) radiation reduction by the use of circular polarized light can be observed. At the same time, the total number of accelerated protons was increased.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the Alliance Program of the Helmholtz Association (HA216/EMMI), by the Thuringian ministry for education, science and culture through EFRE (contract number B715-08006), by the BMBF (contract numbers 03ZIK445 and 03Z1H531), by the DFG (TR18) and by Laserlab Europe (grant agreement no. 284464, ECs 7th framework program). C. R. acknowledges support by the VolkswagenStiftung. We thank F. Ronneberger and B. Beleites for laser support and the GSI target lab for support in target preparation. AK and PG gratefully acknowledge the computational resources awarded under project numbers JJSC01 and JZAM04.

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  1. Department of Physics, Lund University, 22100, Lund, Sweden

    Bastian Aurand

  2. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung Gmbh, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany

    Bastian Aurand & Thomas Kuehl

  3. Helmholtz Institute Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Bastian Aurand, Stephan Kuschel, Oliver Jäckel, Jens Polz & Malte C. Kaluza

  4. Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Christian Rödel & Malte C. Kaluza

  5. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA

    Christian Rödel

  6. Fraunhofer Institut für Grenzflächen-und Bioverfahrenstechnik, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Bentsian Elkin

  7. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Huanyu Zhao

  8. Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Anupam Karmakar

  9. Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428, Jülich, Germany

    Paul Gibbon

  10. Department of Physics, Mainz University, 55128, Mainz, Germany

    Thomas Kuehl

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Aurand, B., Kuschel, S., Rödel, C. et al. Reduction of X-ray generation in high-intensity laser ion acceleration. Appl. Phys. B 118, 247–251 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5979-7

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