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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 175003 (2004) [4 pages]

Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime

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T. Esirkepov1 *, M. Borghesi2, S. V. Bulanov1,2 †, G. Mourou3, and T. Tajima1
1Kansai Research Establishment, JAERI, Umemidai 8-1 Kizu, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
2The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
3Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Received 10 December 2003; published 27 April 2004

An intense laser-plasma interaction regime of the generation of high density ultrashort relativistic ion beams is suggested. When the radiation pressure is dominant, the laser energy is transformed efficiently into the energy of fast ions.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175003
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175003
PACS: 52.38.Kd, 29.25.–t, 41.75.Lx, 52.65.Rr

* Also at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Electronic address: http://wwwapr.apr.jaeri.go.jp/aprc/e/results/simulation/timur/piston/
† Also at General Physics Institute of RAS, Russia.

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