Enhanced target normal sheath acceleration of protons from intense laser interaction with a cone-tube target
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Abstract
Laser driven proton acceleration is proposed to be greatly enhanced by using a cone-tube target, which can be easily manufactured by current 3D-print technology. It is observed that energetic electron bunches are generated along the tube and accelerated to a much higher temperature by the combination of ponderomotive force and longitudinal electric field which is induced by the optical confinement of the laser field. As a result, a localized and enhanced sheath field is produced at the rear of the target and the maximum proton energy is about three-fold increased based on the two-dimentional particle-in-cell simulation results. It is demonstrated that by employing this advanced target scheme, the scaling of the proton energy versus the laser intensity is much beyond the normal target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) case.
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OpenAlex topics: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics · Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications · High-pressure geophysics and materials
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Affiliations
Peking University 1 Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and School of Physics, , Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics 2 , Beijing 100094, People’s Republic of China
Shenzhen University 3 College of Electronic Science and Technology, , Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China
4State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
Shanxi University 5 Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, , Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, People’s Republic of China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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