Laser Ion Acceleration

Presentations

• Shortpulse-contrast maximum energy limitations in high-energy, ultra-intense laser proton acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 9:30 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • M. Schollmeier

    • SNL
    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Novel Micro-Cone Target Collaboration

  • M. Geissel

    • SNL
    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • A.B. Sefkow

    • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • SNL

  • B. Atherton

    • SNL
    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • K. Flippo

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D. Offermann

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • S. Gaillard

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
    • HLSI
    • Novel micro-cone target collaboration

  • T. Kluge

    • HZDR

  • T. Burris-Mog

    • HZDR

  • A. Arefiev

    • UT Austin

  • B. Breizman

    • IFS, UT Austin
    • UT Austin

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• Advanced techniques in laser-ion acceleration: Conversion efficiency, beam distribution and energy scaling in the Break-Out Afterburner regime

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 9:42 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Daniel Jung

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.

  • Lin Yin

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • B.J. Albright

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Donald Gautier

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Rainer Hoerlein

    • Max Planck Institute for Quantum Opticss

  • Randall Johnson

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Daniel Kiefer

    • University of Munich

  • Sam Letzring

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.

  • Rahul Shah

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.

  • Sasikumar Palaniyappan

    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Tsutomo Shimada

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Dietrich Habs

    • University of Munich

  • Juan Fernandez

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Bjorn Hegelich

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.

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• Fast Ignition with Laser-Driven Ion Beams

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 9:54 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • Juan Fernandez

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • B.J. Albright

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • K.J. Bowers

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • D.C. Gautier

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • B.M. Hegelich

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • C.-K. Huang

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • D. Jung

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • S. Letzring

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • S. Palaniyappan

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • R. Shah

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • L. Yin

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • H.-C. Wu

    • Los ALamos National Laboratory

  • J.J. Honrubia

    • Univ. Politecnica de Madrid

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• Ion Focusing Experiments Using Cusped Hemi Targets and 75 MeV Protons From The High-Contrast LANL Trident Laser

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 10:06 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • K. Flippo

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D. Offermann

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • M. Schollmeier

    • SNL
    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Novel Micro-Cone Target Collaboration

  • S. Gaillard

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
    • HLSI
    • Novel micro-cone target collaboration

  • Teresa Bartal

    • UCSD
    • University of California San Diego

  • D. Welch

    • Voss Sci.

  • D. Rose

    • Voss Scientific
    • Voss Sci.

  • Randall Johnson

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Tsutomo Shimada

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • T. Burris-Mog

    • HZDR

  • J. Cobble

    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • T.E. Cowan

    • HZDR

  • M. Geissel

    • SNL
    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • T. Kluge

    • HZDR

  • G. Petrov

    • Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington. DC 20375, USA
    • Radiation Hydrodynamics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA
    • Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington DC 20375, USA
    • NRL

  • Tz. Petrova

    • NRL

  • Jun Ren

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • A.B. Sefkow

    • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • SNL

  • M. Schmitt

    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

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• Generation and focusing of short pulse laser accelerated protons

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 10:18 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • M.E. Foord

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

  • T. Bartal

    • UCSD

  • C. Bellei

    • UCSD

  • M.H. Key

    • LLNL

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

  • P.K. Patel

    • LLNL

  • H.S. McLean

    • LLNL

  • K. Flippo

    • LANL

  • L. VanWoerkom

    • OSU

  • M. Roth

    • TU Damstadt

  • F.N. Beg

    • UCSD

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• Characterization and focusing of laser-accelerated proton beams from hemisphere shells

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 10:30 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • Bin Qiao

    • UC San Diego

  • T. Bartal

    • UC San Diego

  • M.E. Foord

    • LLNL

  • R.B. Stephens

    • GA

  • M.S. Wei

    • GA

  • P. Patel

    • LLNL

  • H. McLean

    • LLNL

  • M. Key

    • LLNL

  • F.N. Beg

    • UC San Diego

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• Narrow Energy-Spread Proton Beams Generated in a Gas Jet by High-Power CO$_{2}$ Laser Pulses

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 10:42 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Dan Haberberger

    • University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095

  • Sergei Tochitsky

    • University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095

  • Chao Gong

    • University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095

  • Warren Mori

    • University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Chan Joshi

    • University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095

  • F. Fiuza

    • GoLP/IPFN - LA - Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • GoLP/IPFN - LA - Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • DCTI/ISCTE, GoLP/IPFN - LA Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear - Laboratorio Associado, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear - Laborat\'orio Associado, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal; DCTI, ISCTE - Lisbon University
    • DCTI, ISCTE, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Luis Silva

    • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa Portugal
    • Instituto Superior T\'ecnico
    • GoLP/IPFN - LA - Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/IPFN - LA Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear - Laboratorio Associado, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear - Laborat\'orio Associado, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa
    • Insituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa Portugal

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• Laser Ion Acceleration Using Few Times Critical Density Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 10:54 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Helle

    • NRL

  • Daniel Gordon

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL
    • Plasma Physcs Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Dmitri Kaganovich

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL
    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Antonio Ting

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL

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• Ion emission in a LWFA at the wake-vacuum boundary using ionization injection

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 11:06 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • Nuno Lemos

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa

  • Ken Marsh

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    • UCLA

  • Art Pak

    • Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94550
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Joana L. Martins

    • Instituto Superior T\'ecnico
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear - Laboratorio Associado, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  • J.M. Dias

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fus\~ao Nuclear, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Lisboa

  • Chan Joshi

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    • UCLA

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• Features of ion acceleration from ultra-thin foils in the radiation-pressure regime

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 11:18 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Dover

    • Department of Physics, Imperial College London

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• Laser Acceleration of Ultra-thin Multi-Ion Foil: Accelerating Quasi-Monoenergetic Proton Beam by Combination of Radiation Pressure and Heavy-Ion Coulomb Repulsion

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 11:30 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Chuan-Sheng Liu

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Tung-Chang Liu

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Xi Shao

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Bengt Eliasson

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Minqing He

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Jao-Jang Su

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Galina Dudnikova

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA

  • Roald Sagdeev

    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,USA
    • University of Maryland, College Park

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• Acceleration of Deuteron Ions from Thin Foil Targets in the Absence of Contaminant Layer Protons and Carbon

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 11:42 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • J.T. Morrison

    • The Ohio State University

  • C. Willis

    • The Ohio State University

  • P. Belencourt

    • The Ohio State University

  • E. McCary

    • The Ohio State University

  • R. Daskalova

    • The Ohio State University

  • E. Chowdhary

    • The Ohio State University

  • M. Storm

    • The Ohio State University

  • K. Akli

    • The Ohio State University

  • L.V. Woerkom

    • The Ohio State University

  • R.R. Freeman

    • The Ohio State University

  • S.H. Feldman

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • G. Dyer

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • A. Bernste

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Todd Ditmire

    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Enhancing ion acceleration using composite targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 11:54 AM – Nov. 16, 2011, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • S.S. Bulanov

    • University of California

  • M. Chen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • L. Yu

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • C.B. Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • E. Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • W.P. Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Circular polarization effects in ion acceleration from high intensity, short pulse laser interactions

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 12:06 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • F. Dollar

  • C. Zulick

  • S.S. Bulanov

  • V. Chvykov

  • G. Kalintchenko

  • T. Matsuoka

  • C. McGuffey

  • A.G.R. Thomas

  • L. Willingale

  • V. Yanovsky

  • A. Maksimchuk

  • K. Krushelnick

    • CUOS, Univ. of Michigan

  • G. Petrov

  • J. Davis

    • Division of Plasma Physics, Naval Research Laboratory

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• Proton energy increase and X-ray yields from micro-cone targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 12:18 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • S. Gaillard

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
    • HLSI
    • Novel micro-cone target collaboration

  • T. Burris-Mog

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

  • M. Bussmann

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

  • T.E. Cowan

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

  • T. Kluge

    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

  • K.A. Flippo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • R.P. Johnson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • D.T. Offermann

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • J. Ren

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • T. Shimada

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • M. Schollmeier

    • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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