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Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target. / Ter-Avetisyan, S.; Schnürer, M.; Nickles, P. V.; Smirnov, M. B.; Sandner, W.; Andreev, A.; Platonov, K.; Psikal, J.; Tikhonchuk, V.

In: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 15, No. 8, 083106, 2008.

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Ter-Avetisyan, S, Schnürer, M, Nickles, PV, Smirnov, MB, Sandner, W, Andreev, A, Platonov, K, Psikal, J & Tikhonchuk, V 2008, 'Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target', Physics of Plasmas, vol. 15, no. 8, 083106. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2968456

APA

Ter-Avetisyan, S., Schnürer, M., Nickles, P. V., Smirnov, M. B., Sandner, W., Andreev, A., Platonov, K., Psikal, J., & Tikhonchuk, V. (2008). Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target. Physics of Plasmas, 15(8), [083106]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2968456

Vancouver

Ter-Avetisyan S, Schnürer M, Nickles PV, Smirnov MB, Sandner W, Andreev A et al. Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target. Physics of Plasmas. 2008;15(8). 083106. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2968456

Author

Ter-Avetisyan, S. ; Schnürer, M. ; Nickles, P. V. ; Smirnov, M. B. ; Sandner, W. ; Andreev, A. ; Platonov, K. ; Psikal, J. ; Tikhonchuk, V. / Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target. In: Physics of Plasmas. 2008 ; Vol. 15, No. 8.

BibTeX

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title = "Laser proton acceleration in a water spray target",
abstract = "Studies of interaction of a cloud of submicrometer water droplets with ultrashort (40 fs) and intense (∼2× 1019 W cm2) laser pulses demonstrate an efficient acceleration of protons and oxygen ions. Due to a high ratio of the volume to the enveloping surface of a single droplet and a large number of droplets in a focal volume, efficient laser pulse absorption is enabled, which provides high electron temperatures and ion acceleration to high energies. The generation of ions with energies more than 1 MeV per nucleon is demonstrated. The observed quasi-monoenergetic feature in the proton spectrum is discussed with the thermal expansion-Coulomb explosion model and numerical simulations.",
author = "S. Ter-Avetisyan and M. Schn{\"u}rer and Nickles, {P. V.} and Smirnov, {M. B.} and W. Sandner and A. Andreev and K. Platonov and J. Psikal and V. Tikhonchuk",
note = "Funding Information: This research was partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio TR18 and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant EP/E035728/1. We thank the laser team at Max-Born-Institute for laser system guidance. S.T-A. thanks M. P. Kalashnikov for important discussions.",
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