Energy increase in multi-MeV ion acceleration in the interaction of a short pulse laser with a cluster-gas target

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Fukuda, Y ^a   Faenov, A Ya ^a   Tampo, M ^a   Pikuz, T A ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Kando, M ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a   Yogo, A ^a   Sakaki, H ^a   Kameshima, T ^a   Pirozhkov, A S ^a   Ogura, K ^a   Mori, M ^a   Esirkepov, T Zh ^a   Koga, J ^a   Boldarev, A S ^b   Gasilov, V A ^b   Magunov, A I ^c   Yamauchi, T ^d   Kodama, R ^e   Bolton, P R ^a   Kato, Y ^a   Tajima, T ^a   Daido, H ^a   Bulanov, S V ^a,c   more..

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING   (Russian Federation)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY PLASMA; ENERGY INCREASE; GAS TARGETS; HIGH-ENERGY IONS; ION ACCELERATIONS; ION ENERGIES; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; REAR SIDE; SHORT-PULSE LASERS; SOLID TARGETS; ULTRA-SHORT PULSE LASER; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

CELL MEMBRANES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TARGETS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

IONS;

EID: 70349929529     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.165002     Document Type: Article

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