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Extreme light fields and their applications

Production of multiply charged ion beams with an energy of tens of MeV/nucleon by ultrahigh-power laser radiation for nuclear physics problems

A. V. Korzhimanov, E. S. Efimenko, A. V. Kim, S. V. Golubev

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Abstract: We report a comprehensive analysis of an earlier proposed method which employs ultrahigh-power (petawatt) circularly polarised laser radiation to generate multiply charged ion beams in its interaction with a nanostructured two-component target; the ion beams are intended for application in nuclear physics. The problems of heavy atom ionisation in a superstrong laser field and laserinduced acceleration of the resultant ions to energies of ~20 – 30 MeV/nucleon are considered.

Keywords: laser acceleration, ion acceleration, multiply charged ions, petawatt lasers, nanostructured targets.

PACS: 41.75.Jv, 52.38.Kd, 52.50.Jm, 42.65.Re, 32.80.Fb

Received: 24.12.2012
Revised: 12.02.2013

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2013, 43:3, 217–225

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