Forward ion acceleration and nuclear reactions on a tabletop driven by a high-intensity laser

Anatoly M. Maksimchuk; Koshichi Nemoto; V. Yu. Bychenkov; K. Flippo; S. Banerjee; Donald P. Umstadter; Gerard A. Mourou

doi:10.1117/12.418790

12 March 2001 Forward ion acceleration and nuclear reactions on a tabletop driven by a high-intensity laser

Anatoly M. Maksimchuk, Koshichi Nemoto, V. Yu. Bychenkov, K. Flippo, S. Banerjee, Donald P. Umstadter, Gerard A. Mourou

Proceedings Volume 4352, Laser Optics 2000: Ultrafast Optics and Superstrong Laser Fields; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.418790
Event: Laser Optics 2000, 2000, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

The protons with the energy up to 10 MeV accelerated in the forward direction from the thin Mylar film by relativistically intense 10 TW, 400 fs laser pulse have been observed. When a deuterated polystyrene was deposited on the front surface of the film and a boron sample was placed behind the target the production of 10⁵ atoms of positron active isotope ¹¹C from the reaction ¹⁰B(d,n)¹¹C have been measured. The activation results suggest that ions (protons and deuterons) were accelerated from the front surface of the target.

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Anatoly M. Maksimchuk, Koshichi Nemoto, V. Yu. Bychenkov, K. Flippo, S. Banerjee, Donald P. Umstadter, and Gerard A. Mourou "Forward ion acceleration and nuclear reactions on a tabletop driven by a high-intensity laser", Proc. SPIE 4352, Laser Optics 2000: Ultrafast Optics and Superstrong Laser Fields, (12 March 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.418790

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