Production of radioactive nuclides by energetic protons generated from intense laser-plasma interactions

被引：133

作者：

Santala, MIK

Zepf, M

Beg, FN

Clark, EL

Dangor, AE

Krushelnick, K

Tatarakis, M

Watts, I

Ledingham, KWD

McCanny, T

Spencer, I

Machacek, AC

Allott, R

Clarke, RJ

Norreys, PA

机构：

[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2BZ, England

[2] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland

[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3PU, England

[4] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England

[5] AWE Aldermaston, Dept Radiat Phys, Reading RG7 4PR, Berks, England

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2001年 / 78卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.1335849

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

Nuclear activation has been observed in materials exposed to the ablated plasma generated from high intensity laser-solid interactions (at focused intensities up to 2x10(19) W/cm(2)) and is produced by protons having energies up to 30 MeV. The energy spectrum of the protons is determined from these activation measurements and is found to be consistent with other ion diagnostics. The possible development of this technique for "table-top" production of radionuclides for medical applications is also discussed.

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