Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Experimental discrimination of ion stopping models near the Bragg peak in highly ionized matter

  • W. Cayzac,
  • A. Frank,
  • A. Ortner,
  • V. Bagnoud,
  • M. M. Basko,
  • S. Bedacht,
  • C. Bläser,
  • A. Blažević,
  • S. Busold,
  • O. Deppert,
  • J. Ding,
  • M. Ehret,
  • P. Fiala,
  • S. Frydrych,
  • D. O. Gericke,
  • L. Hallo,
  • J. Helfrich,
  • D. Jahn,
  • E. Kjartansson,
  • A. Knetsch,
  • D. Kraus,
  • G. Malka,
  • N. W. Neumann,
  • K. Pépitone,
  • D. Pepler,
  • S. Sander,
  • G. Schaumann,
  • T. Schlegel,
  • N. Schroeter,
  • D. Schumacher,
  • M. Seibert,
  • An. Tauschwitz,
  • J. Vorberger,
  • F. Wagner,
  • S. Weih,
  • Y. Zobus,
  • M. Roth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15693
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The energy loss of ions in plasma is a challenging issue in inertial confinement fusion and many theoretical models exist on ion-stopping power. Here, the authors use laser-generated plasma probed by accelerator-produced ions in experiments to discriminate various ion stopping models near the Bragg peak.