DOI

  • J. Limpouch
  • J. Psikal
  • V. T. Tikhonchuk
  • O. Klimo
  • A. V. Brantov
  • A. A. Andreev

Intense short laser pulses may accelerate ions in thin targets to energies of several MeV per nucleon and highly collimated ion beams may be formed. Quasi-monoenergetic ion beams were generated last year from foils with a specially treated rear surface and from the water droplets. Mass-limited targets such as water μm-sized spheres or small metal discs offer an advantage of reducing the absorbed laser energy spread in the transverse directions. Ion acceleration in targets irradiated by short ultra-intense laser pulses is studied here via two-dimensional in space and three-dimensional in velocities (2D3V) relativistic electromagnetic particle-in-cell code. Simulations were performed for plane and curved foil sections and cylindrical targets that serve as a two-dimensional model of spherical micro-droplets. Two ion species with different charge-to-mass ratios facilitate the formation of persistent peak in energy distribution of the lighter ions, while the heavier ions act like a piston.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи042033
ЖурналJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Том112
Номер выпускаPart 4
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 12 июн 2008
Событие5th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2007 - Kobe, Япония
Продолжительность: 9 сен 200714 сен 2007

    Предметные области Scopus

  • Физика и астрономия (все)

ID: 85664453