Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Isolated proton bunch acceleration by a petawatt laser pulse

  • P. Hilz,
  • T. M. Ostermayr,
  • A. Huebl,
  • V. Bagnoud,
  • B. Borm,
  • M. Bussmann,
  • M. Gallei,
  • J. Gebhard,
  • D. Haffa,
  • J. Hartmann,
  • T. Kluge,
  • F. H. Lindner,
  • P. Neumayr,
  • C. G. Schaefer,
  • U. Schramm,
  • P. G. Thirolf,
  • T .F. Rösch,
  • F. Wagner,
  • B. Zielbauer,
  • J. Schreiber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02663-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Monoenergetic proton beams can be useful in many applications but their generation from laser irradiation of targets is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate a laser-accelerated proton bunch with improved density and energy resolution by using a refined target.