Development of laser-driven proton source toward its applications

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-41

  Sagisaka, Akito ^a   Daido, Hiroyuki ^a   Pirozhkov, Alexander S ^a   Yogo, Akifumi ^a   Ogura, Koichi ^a   Orimo, Satoshi ^a   Ma, Jinglong ^a   Mori, Michiaki ^a   Nishiuchi, Mamiko ^a   Bulanov, Sergei V ^a,b,c   Esirkepov, Timur Zh ^a,c   Oishi, Yuji ^d   Nayuki, Takuya ^d   Fujii, Takashi ^d   Nemoto, Koshichi ^d   Nagatomo, Hideo ^e  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High intensity laser; Ion; Preformed plasma; Proton acceleration; Thin foil target

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849131163     PISSN: 12264776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3807/JOSK.2009.13.1.037     Document Type: Article

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