High repetition rate ion acceleration platform using ambient-temperature liquid jets

ORAL

Abstract

High-power laser-matter interactions are promising sources of high-energy, high-flux particle beams relevant to applications from fundamental science to cancer therapy. To fully realize these applications, it will be necessary to produce laser-driven particle beams at repetition rates of 1 Hz or above1,2. We have developed an ambient temperature, continuously-refreshing liquid jet target based on tungsten microfluidic nozzles. Here, we present an experimental platform based on this target that has demonstrated 5 Hz acceleration of laser-driven proton beams. We describe key features of the liquid jet target, as well as the suite of high repetition rate-compatible laser and particle diagnostics necessary to characterize the laser-target interaction and the laser-driven proton beam. Using these diagnostics, we confirm the performance of the liquid jet target as a source of laser-driven ion beams at high repetition rates. Finally, we illustrate applications of this platform to data-driven real-time optimization of laser-driven ion beam parameters.

1. T. Ma et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 2021

2. P. W. Hatfield, Nature 2021

*This work was supported by the U.S. DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences under FWP 100182. G.D.G. acknowledges support from the DOE NNSA SSGF program under DE-NA0003960.

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Publication: A manuscript based on this work is under preparation for submission to Nature Scientific Reports.

Presenters

  • Griffin Glenn

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Authors

  • Griffin Glenn

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Hamad Ahmed

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Sam Astbury

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Mario Balcazar

    • University of Michigan

  • Marco Borghesi

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Nicolas Bourgeois

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Christopher Crissman

    • United States Military Academy

  • Chandra Breanne Curry

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Stephen J Dann

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Daniel Deponte

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Stephen Dilorio

    • University of Michigan

  • Nicholas P Dover

    • Imperial College London

  • Tom Dzelzainis

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Oliver Ettlinger

    • Imperial College London

  • Maxence Gauthier

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Lorenzo Giuffrida

    • ELI Beamlines

  • Siegfried H Glenzer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Ross Gray

    • Strathclyde University

  • James Green

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • George Hicks

    • Imperial College London

  • Cormac Hyland

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Valeriia Istokskaia

    • ELI Beamlines

  • Martin King

    • Strathclyde University

  • Brendan Loughran

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Daniele Margarone

    • ELI Beamlines

  • Orla McCusker

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Paul McKenna

    • Strathclyde University

  • Zulfikar Najmudin

    • Imperial College London

  • Charlotte A Palmer

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Claudia Parisuana

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Peter Parsons

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Christopher Spindloe

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Matthew J. V Streeter

    • Queen's University Belfast

  • Dan R Symes

    • Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • Alec G.R. G Thomas

    • University of Michigan
    • UM

  • Franziska Treffert

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Nuo Xu

    • Imperial College London