Ion acceleration in multispecies targets driven by intense laser radiation pressure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Kar, S ^a   Kakolee, K F ^a   Qiao, B ^a,j   MacChi, A ^b,c   Cerchez, M ^d   Doria, D ^a   Geissler, M ^a   McKenna, P ^e   Neely, D ^f   Osterholz, J ^d   Prasad, R ^a   Quinn, K ^a   Ramakrishna, B ^a,k   Sarri, G ^a   Willi, O ^d   Yuan, X Y ^e,i   Zepf, M ^a,g   Borghesi, M ^a,h  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^c Department of Physics Enrico Fermi ^*  (Italy)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^f Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^g HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^k INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; ANALYTICAL ESTIMATES; CARBON IONS; INTENSE LASER RADIATION; ION ACCELERATIONS; ION SPECTRUM; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; MONOENERGETIC; MULTI-SPECIES; NARROW BANDS; RADIATION PRESSURE ACCELERATIONS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SUBPICOSECOND; TARGET PARAMETER; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRA-THIN;

LASERS; PRESSURE;

IONS;

EID: 84868314558     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.185006     Document Type: Article

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