Nature Communications (Apr 2016)
Guided post-acceleration of laser-driven ions by a miniature modular structure
- Satyabrata Kar,
- Hamad Ahmed,
- Rajendra Prasad,
- Mirela Cerchez,
- Stephanie Brauckmann,
- Bastian Aurand,
- Giada Cantono,
- Prokopis Hadjisolomou,
- Ciaran L. S. Lewis,
- Andrea Macchi,
- Gagik Nersisyan,
- Alexander P. L. Robinson,
- Anna M. Schroer,
- Marco Swantusch,
- Matt Zepf,
- Oswald Willi,
- Marco Borghesi
Affiliations
- Satyabrata Kar
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Hamad Ahmed
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Rajendra Prasad
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Mirela Cerchez
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Stephanie Brauckmann
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Bastian Aurand
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Giada Cantono
- Department of Physics E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3
- Prokopis Hadjisolomou
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Ciaran L. S. Lewis
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Andrea Macchi
- Department of Physics E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3
- Gagik Nersisyan
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Alexander P. L. Robinson
- Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot
- Anna M. Schroer
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Marco Swantusch
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Matt Zepf
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- Oswald Willi
- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Marco Borghesi
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10792
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Intense laser-driven acceleration mechanisms are promising for the realization of compact particle accelerators. Here, the authors present a miniature linear accelerating module for laser-driven protons from a foil that addresses limitation in terms of peak energy, bandwidth and beam divergence.
