High peak current acceleration of narrow divergence ions beams with the BELLA-PW laser

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Abstract

We present a parameter study of ion acceleration driven by the BELLA-PW laser. The laser repetition rate of 1Hz allowed for scanning the laser pulse duration, relative focus location and target thickness for the first time at laser peak powers of above 1 petawatt. Further, the long focal length geometry of the experiment (f\textbackslash 65) and hence, large focus size provided ion beams of reduced divergence and unprecedented charge density.

*This work was supported by Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funding from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Authors

  • Sven Steinke

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • BELLA Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Qing Ji

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Franziska Treffert

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • Stepan Bulanov

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Jianhui Bin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kei Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Anthony Gonsalves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Csaba Toth

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Jaehong Park

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Markus Roth

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Thomas Schenkel

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Wim Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory