Energy dispersion in radiation pressure accelerated ion beams
Plasma Physics
2015-03-19 v1
Abstract
We address the problem of energy dispersion of radiation pressure accelerated (RPA) ion beams emerging from a thin (solid) target. Two different acceleration schemes, namely phase-stable acceleration and multi-stage acceleration, are considered by means of analytical modelling and one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Our investigations offer a deeper understanding of RPA and allow us to derive some guidelines for generating monoenergetic ion beams.
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@article{arxiv.1105.4827,
title = {Energy dispersion in radiation pressure accelerated ion beams},
author = {M. Grech and S. Skupin and A. Diaw and T. Schlegel and V. T. Tikhonchuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4827},
year = {2015}
}
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22 pages, 11 figures