Frontiers in Physics (Sep 2020)
Generation of α-Particle Beams With a Multi-kJ, Peta-Watt Class Laser System
- Daniele Margarone,
- Daniele Margarone,
- Alessio Morace,
- Julien Bonvalet,
- Yuki Abe,
- Vasiliki Kantarelou,
- Didier Raffestin,
- Lorenzo Giuffrida,
- Philippe Nicolai,
- Marco Tosca,
- Antonino Picciotto,
- Giada Petringa,
- Giuseppe A. P. Cirrone,
- Yuji Fukuda,
- Yasuhiro Kuramitsu,
- Hideaki Habara,
- Yasunobu Arikawa,
- Shinsuke Fujioka,
- Emmanuel D'Humieres,
- Georg Korn,
- Dimitri Batani
Affiliations
- Daniele Margarone
- Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Daniele Margarone
- ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics (FZU), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Alessio Morace
- Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Julien Bonvalet
- Centre of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Yuki Abe
- Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Vasiliki Kantarelou
- ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics (FZU), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Didier Raffestin
- Centre of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Lorenzo Giuffrida
- ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics (FZU), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Philippe Nicolai
- Centre of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Marco Tosca
- Physics Department, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Antonino Picciotto
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy
- Giada Petringa
- Southern National Laboratory (LNS), Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy
- Giuseppe A. P. Cirrone
- Southern National Laboratory (LNS), Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy
- Yuji Fukuda
- Kansai Photon Science Institute, Kyoto, Japan
- Yasuhiro Kuramitsu
- Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Hideaki Habara
- Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Yasunobu Arikawa
- Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Shinsuke Fujioka
- Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Emmanuel D'Humieres
- Centre of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Georg Korn
- ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics (FZU), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Dimitri Batani
- Centre of Intense Lasers and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.00343
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8
Abstract
We present preliminary results on generation of energetic α-particles driven by lasers. The experiment was performed at the Institute of Laser Engineering in Osaka using the short-pulse, high-intensity, high-energy, PW-class laser. The laser pulse was focused onto a thin plastic foil (pitcher) to generate a proton beam by the well-known TNSA mechanism which, in turn, was impinging onto a boron-nitride (BN) target (catcher) to generated alpha-particles as a result of proton-boron nuclear fusion events. Our results demonstrate generation of α-particles with energies in the range 8–10 MeV and with a flux around 5 × 109 sr−1.
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