Proton Acceleration Driven by a Nanosecond Laser from a Cryogenic Thin Solid-Hydrogen Ribbon
A high-power pulsed laser is focused onto a solid-hydrogen target to accelerate forward a collimated stream of protons in the range 0.1–1 MeV, carrying a very high energy of about 30 J (∼5% laser-ion conversion efficiency) and extremely large charge of about ∼0.1 mC per laser pulse. This result is...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2016-11-01
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Series: | Physical Review X |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041030 |