Intense high-energy proton beams from petawatt-laser irradiation of solids

被引:1570
作者
Snavely, RA
Key, MH
Hatchett, SP
Cowan, TE
Roth, M
Phillips, TW
Stoyer, MA
Henry, EA
Sangster, TC
Singh, MS
Wilks, SC
MacKinnon, A
Offenberger, A
Pennington, DM
Yasuike, K
Langdon, AB
Lasinski, BF
Johnson, J
Perry, MD
Campbell, EM
机构
[1] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[3] GSI Lab, Darmstadt, Germany
[4] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7, Canada
[5] Osaka Univ, ILE, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
[6] NASA, George C Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2945
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of thin Solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity 3 x 10(20) Wcm(-2). Up to 48 J (12%) of the laser energy is transferred to 2 X 10(13) protons of energy >10 MeV. The energy spectrum exhibits a sharp high-energy cutoff as high as 58 MeV on the axis of the beam which decreases in energy with increasing off axis angle. Proton induced nuclear processes have been observed and used to characterize the beam.
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页码:2945 / 2948
页数:4
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