Energetic proton acceleration and bunch generation by ultraintense laser pulses on the surface of thin plasma targets

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Energetic proton acceleration and bunch generation by ultraintense laser pulses on the surface of thin plasma targets. / Okada, T.; Andreev, A. A.; Mikado, Y.; Okubo, K.

In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, Vol. 74, No. 2, 026401, 2006.

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Okada, T. ; Andreev, A. A. ; Mikado, Y. ; Okubo, K. / Energetic proton acceleration and bunch generation by ultraintense laser pulses on the surface of thin plasma targets. In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2006 ; Vol. 74, No. 2.

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title = "Energetic proton acceleration and bunch generation by ultraintense laser pulses on the surface of thin plasma targets",

abstract = "Energetic proton acceleration from concave targets, the front of which were irradiated with 40 fs laser pulses with an intensity of 1020 W cm2, has been studied as a function of the depth of the concave shape. Three kinds of targets, a triangular concave target, a circular concave target and a parabolic concave target are considered. When the depth of the concave shape was varied, the peak proton energy showed a maximum. The underlying mechanism for the existence of a maximum peak proton energy is presented by tracing the proton trajectory. It is concluded that a parabolic concave target is the best, among the targets considered, for accelerating a proton beam, since a proton beam from a parabolic concave target goes through the strongest electric field.",

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