Production of ion beams in high-power laser-plasma interactions and their applications

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-24

  Pegoraro, F ^a   Atzeni, S ^b   Borghesi, M ^c   Bulanov, S ^d,e   Esirkepov, T ^e   Honrubia, J ^f   Kato, Y ^e   Khoroshkov, V ^g   Nishihara, K ^h   Tajima, T ^e   Temporal, M ^f   Willi, O ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Ion beams; Laser pulse interaction; Proton imaging; Thermonuclear targets

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IGNITION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER PULSE INTERACTION; PROTON IMAGING; THERMONUCLEAR TARGETS;

ION BEAMS;

EID: 2942711598     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263034604221048     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. AMALDI, U. (2001). The Italian hadrontherapy project CNAO. Physica Mecica-XVII, Supplement 1, 33-37.
2. ATZENI, S., TEMPORAL, M. & HONRUBIA, J.J. (2002). A first analysis of fast ignition of precompressed ICF fuel by laser-accelerated protons. Nucl. Fusion 42, L1-L4.
3. BADZIAK, J., WORNYA, E., PARYS, P., PLATONOV, K.Y., JABLONSKI, S., RYC, L., VANKOV, A.B. & WOLOWSKI, J. (2001). Fast proton generation from ultrashort Laser pulse interaction with double-layer foil targets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 215001.
4. BADZIAK, J., WORNYA, E., PARYS, P., WOLOWSKI, J., PLATONOV, K.YU. & VANDOV, A.B. (2002). Effect of foil target thickness on fast proton generation driven by ultrashort-pulse laser. J. Appl. Phys. 91, 5504-5506.
5. BORGHESI, M., CAMPBELL, D.H., SCHIAVI, A., HAINES, M.G., WILLI, O., MACKINNON, A.J., PATEL, P., GIZZI, L.A., GALIMBERTI, M., CLARKE, R.J., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H. & BULANOV, S.V. (2002a). Electric field detection in laser-plasma interaction experiments via the proton imaging technique. Phys. Plasmas 9, 2214-2220.
6. BORGHESI, M., BULANOV, S., CAMPBELL, D.H., CLARKE, R.J., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., GALIMBERTI, M., GIZZI, L.A., MACKINNON. A.J., NAUMOVA, N.M., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H., SCHIAVI, A. & WILLI, O. (2002b). Macroscopic evidence of soliton formation in multiterawatt laser-plasma interaction. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 135002.
7. BORGHESI, M., SCHIAVI, A., CAMPBELL, D.H., HAINES, M.G., WILLI, O., MACKINNON, A.J., PATEL, P., GALIMBERTI, M & GIZZI, L.A. (2003). Proton imaging detection of transient electromagnetic fields in laser-plasma interactions. Rev. Scient. Instrum. 74, 1688-1693.
8. BULANOV, S.V., INOVENKOV, I.N., KIRSANOV, V.I., NAUMOVA, N.M. & SAKHAROV, A.S. (1992). Nonlinear depletion of ultrashort and relativistically strong laser pulses in an underdense plasma. Phys. Fluids 4, 1935-1942.
9. BULANOV, S.V., NAUMOVA, N.M. & PEGORARO, F. (1994). Interaction of an ultrashort, Relativistically strong pulse with an overdense plasma. Phys. Plasmas 1, 745-757.
10. BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., KAMENETS, F.F. & NAUMOVA, N.M (1995). Electromagnetic solution formation during interaction of relativistically strong laser pulses with plasmas. Plasma Phys. Rep. 21, 550-561.
11. BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., NAUMOVA, N.M., PEGORARO, F. & VSHIVKOV, V.A. (1999). Solitonlike electromagnetic waves behind a superintense laser pulse in a plasma. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3440-3443.
12. BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., CALIFANO, F., KATO, Y., LISEIKINA, T.V., MIMA, K., NAUMOVA, N.M., NISHIHARA, K., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H., SENTOKU, Y. & UESHIMA, Y. (2000). Generation of the collimated beams of relativistic ions in laser plasma interactions. JTEP Lett. 71, 407-411.
13. BULANOV, S.V., CALIFANO, F., DUDNIKOVA, G.I., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., INOVENKOV, I.N., KAMENETS, F.F., LISEJKINA, T.V., LONTANO, M., MIMA, K., NAUMOVA, N.M., NISHIHARA, K., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H., SAKHAROV, A.S., SENTOKU, Y., VSHIVKOV, V.A. & ZHAKHOVSKII, V.V. (2001). Relativistic interaction of laser pulses with plasmas. In Reviews of Plasma Physics. (Shafranov, V.D., ed.). 22, pp. 227-335. New York: Plenum.
14. BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., KAMENETS, F.F., KATO, Y., KUZNETSOV, A.V., NISHIHARA, K., PEGORARO, F., TAJIMA, T. & KHOROSHKOV, V.S. (2002a). Generation of high-quality charged particle beams during the acceleration of ions by high-power during the acceleration of ions by high-power laser radiation laser radiation. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 975-991.
15. BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., KHOROSHKOV, V.S., KUZNETSOV, A.V & PEGORARO, F. (2002b). Oncological hadrontherapy with laser ion accelerators in proton therapy. Phys. Lett. A 299, 240-247.
16. BULANOV, S.V. & KHOROSHKOV, V.S. (2002c). Feasibility of using laser ion accelerators in proton therapy. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 453-456.
17. BYCHENKOV, V.Y., ROZMUS, W., MAKSIMCHUK, A., UMSTADTER, D. & CAPJACK, C.E. (2001). FAST IGNITOR CONCEPT WITH LIGHT IONS. Plasma Phys. Rep. 27, 1017-1020.
18. CLARK, E., KRUSHELNICK, K., ZEPF, M., BEG, F.N., TATARAKIS, M., MACHACEK, A., SANTALA, M.I.K., WATTS, I., NORREYS, P.A. & DANGOR, A.E. (2000). Energetic heavy-ion and proton generation from ultraintense laser-plasma interactions with solids. Phys Rev. Lett. 85, 1654-1657.
19. ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., SENTOKU, Y., MIMA, K., NISHIHARA, K., CALIFANO, F., PEGORARO, F., NAUMOVA, N.M., BULANOV, S.V., UESHIMA, Y., LISEIKINA, T.V., VSHIVKOV, V.A. & KATO, Y. (1999). Ion acceleration by super intense laser pulses in plasmas. JETP Lett. 70, 82-89.
20. ESIRKEPOV, T.Z. (2001). Exact charge conservation scheme for particle-in-cell simulation with an arbitrary form-factor. Comput. Phys. Commun. 135, 144-153.
21. ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., NISHIHARA, K., BULANOV, S.V. & PEGORARO, F. (2002a). Three-dimensional relativistic electromagnetic subcycle solitons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, A275002.
22. ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., BULANOV, S.V., NISHIHARA, K., TAJIMA, T., PEGORARO, F., KHOROSHKOV, V.S., MIMA, K., DAIDO, H., KATO, Y., KITAGAWA, Y., NAGAI, K. & SAKABE, S. (2002b). Proposed double-layer target for the generation of high-quality laser-accelerated ion beams. Phys. Rev. Lett. 175003.
23. FOURKAL, E., SHAHINE, B., DING, M., LI, J.S., TAJIMA, T. & MA, C.M. (2002). Particle in cell simulation of laser-accelerated proton beams for radiation therapy. Medical Physics 29, 2788-2798.
24. GOITEN, M., LOMAX, A.J. & PEDRONI, E.S. (2002). Treating cancer with protons. Phys. Today 55, 45-48.
25. HAINES, M.G. (1981). Thermal instability and magnetic field generated by large heat flow in a plasma, especially under laser-fusion conditions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 917-920.
26. HATCHETT, S.P., BROWN, C.G., COWAN, T.E., HENRY, E.A., JOHNSON, J.S., KEY, M.H., KOCH, J.A., LANGDON, A.B., LASINSKI, B.F., LEE, R.W., MACKINNON, A.J., PENNINGTON, D.M., PERRY, M.D., PHILLIPS, T.W. & ROTH, M. (2000). Electron, photon, and ion beams from the relativistic interaction of petawatt laser pulses with solid targets. Phys. Plasmas 7, 2076-2082.
27. HEGELICH, M., KARSCH, S., PRETZLER, G., HABS, D., WITTE, K., GUENTHER, W., ALLEN, M., BLAZEVIC, A., FUCHS, J., GAUTHIER, J.C., GEISSEL, M., AUDEBERT, P., COWAN, T. & ROTH, M. (2002). MeV ion jets from short-pulse-laser interaction with thin foils. Phys Rev. Lett. 89, 085002.
28. KHOROSHKOV, V.S. & MINAKOVA, E.I. (1998). Proton beams in radiotherapy. Eur. J. Phys. 19, 523-536.
29. LONTANO, M., BORCHESI, M., BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., FARINA, D., NAUMOVA, N., NISHIHARA, K., PASSONI, M., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H., SAKHAROV, A.S. & WILLI, O. (2003). 158. Non-drifting relativistic Electromagnetic solitons in plasmas. Laser Part Beams 21, 539-542.
30. KRAFT, G. (2001). What we can learn from heavy ion therapy for radio-protection in space. Physica Medica XVII. Supl. 1, 33.
31. MACKINNON, A.J., BORGHESI, M., HATCHETT, S., KEY, M.H., PATEL, P.K., CAMPBELL, H., SCHIAVI, A., SNAVELY, R., WILKS, S.C. & WILLI, O. (2001). Effect of plasma scale length on multi-MeV proton production by intense laser pulses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1769-1772.
32. MACKINNON, A.J., SENTOKU, Y., PATEL, P.K., PRICE, D.W., HATCHETT, S., KEY, M.H., ANDERSEN, C., SNAVELY, R. & FREEMAN, R.R. (2002). Enhancement of proton acceleration by hot-electron recirculation in thin foils irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 215006.
33. MAKSIMCHUK, A., GU, S., FLIPPO, K., UMSTADTER, D. & BYCHENKOV, V.Y. (2000). Forward ion acceleration in thin films driven by a high-intensity laser. Phys. Rev. Lett.84, 4108-4111.
34. MOUROU, G., BARTY, P. & PERRY, M. (1998). Ultra-high intensity lasers, physics of the extreme on a tabletop. Physics Today 51, 22-24.
35. MOUROU, G., CHANG, Z., MAKSIMCHUK, A., NEES, J., BULANOV, S.V., BYHENKOV, V.YU., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., NAUMOVA, N.M., PEGORARO, F. & RUHL, H., (2002). On the design of experiments for the study of relativistic nonlinear optics in the limit of single-cycle pulse duration and single-wavelength spot size. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 12-27.
36. NAKAMURA, T. & KAWATA, S. (2003). Origin of protons accelerated by an intense laser and the dependence of their energy on the plasma density. Phys. Rev. E, 026403-1-10.
37. NAUMOVA, N.M., BULANOV, S.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., FARINA, D., NISHIHARA, K., PEGORARO, F., RUHL, H. & SAKHAROV, A.S. (2001). Formation of Electromagnetic postsolitons in plasmas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185004.
38. ROTH, M., COWAN, T.E., KEY, M.H., HATCHETT, S.P., BROWN, C., FOUNTAIN, W., JOHNSON, J., PENNINGTON, D.M., SNAVELY, R.A., WILKS, S.C., YASUIKE, K., RUHL, H., PEGORARO, F., BULANOV, S.V., CAMPBELL, E.M., PERRY, M.D. & POWELL, H. (2001). Fast ignition by intense laser-accelerated proton beams. Phys Rev. Lett. 86, 436-439.
39. ROTH, M., BLAZEVIC, A., GEISSEL, M., SCHLEGEL, T., COWAN, T.E., ALLEN, M., GAUTHIER, J.-C., AUDEBERT, P., FUCHS, J., MEYER-TER-VEHN, J., HEGELICH, M., KARSCH, S. & PUKHOV, A. (2002). Energetic ions generated by laser pulses: A detailed study on target properties. Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 5, 061301.
40. RUHL, H., BULANOV, S.V., COWAN, T.E., LISEIKINA, T.V., NICKELS, P., PEGORARO, F., ROTH, M. & SANDER, W. (2001). Computer simulation of the three-dimensional regime of proton acceleration in the interaction of laser radiation with a thin spherical target. Plasma Phys. Rep. 27, 363-371.
41. SENTOKU, Y., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., MIMA, K., NISHIHARA, K., CALIFANO, F., PEGORARO, F. SAKAGAMI, H., KITAGAWA, Y., NAUMOVA, N.M. & BULANOV, S.V. (1999). Bursts of super-reflected laser light from inhomogeneous plasmas due to the generation of relativistic solitary waves. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3434-3437.
42. SENTOKU, Y., LISEIKINA, T.V., ESIRKEPOV, T.Z., CALIFANO, F., NAUMOVA, N.M., UESHIMA, Y., VSHIVKOV, V.A., KATO, Y., MIMA, K., NISHIHARA, K., PEGORARO, F. & BULANOV, S.V. (2000). High density collimated beams of relativistic ions produced by petawatt laser pulses in plasmas. Phys. Rev. E 62, 7271-7281.
43. SENTOKU, Y., BYCHENKOV, V.Y., FLIPPO, K., MAKSIMCHUK, A., MIMA, K., MOUROU, G., SHENG, Z.M. & UMSTADTER, D. (2002). High-energy ion generation in Interaction of short laser pulse with high-density plasma. Appl. Phys. B 74, 207-215.
44. SNAVELY, R.A., KEY, M.H., HATCHETT, S.P., COWAN, T.E., ROTH, M. PHILLIPS, T.W., STOYER, M.A., HENRY, E.A., SANGSTER, T.C., SINGH, M.S., WILKS, S.C., MACKINNON, A., OFFENBERGER, A., PENNINGTON, D.M., YASUIKE, K., LANGDON, A.B., LASINSKI, B.F., JOHNSON, J., PERRY, M.D. & CAMPBELL, E.M. (2000). Intense high-energy proton beams from petawatt-laser irradiation of solids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2945-2948.
45. TEMPORAL, M., HONRUBIA, J.J. & ATZENI, S. (2002). Numerical study of fast ignition of ablatively imploded deuterium-tritium fusion capsules by ultra-intense proton beams. Physics of Plasmas 9, 3098.
46. ZEPF, M., CLARK, E.L., BEG, F.N., CLARKE, R.J., DANGOR, A.E., GOPAL, A., KRUSHELNICK, K., NORREYS, P.A., TATARAKIS, M., WAGNER, U. & WEI, M.S. (2003). Proton acceleration from high-intensity laser interactions with thin foil targets Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 064801.