Enabling the Realisation of Proton Tomography
Plasma Physics
2021-04-27 v3
Abstract
The proton radiography diagnostic is widely used in laser-plasma experiments to make magnetic field measurements. Recent developments in analysis have enabled quantitative reconstruction of path-integrated magnetic field values, but making conclusions about the three-dimensional structure of the fields remains challenging. In this Letter we propose and demonstrate in kinetic simulations a novel target geometry which makes possible the production of multiple proton beams from a single laser pulse, enabling the application of tomographic methods to proton radiography.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.11268,
title = {Enabling the Realisation of Proton Tomography},
author = {Ben T. Spiers and Ramy Aboushelbaya and Qingsong Feng and Marko W. Mayr and Iustin Ouatu and Robert W. Paddock and Robin Timmis and Robin H. W. Wang and Peter A. Norreys},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.11268},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, companion paper to arXiv:2103.11266