Laser acceleration of ion beams
Accelerator Physics
2008-12-18 v2 Nuclear Theory
Optics
Abstract
We consider methods of charged particle acceleration by means of high-intensity lasers. As an application we discuss a laser booster for heavy ion beams provided, e.g. by the Dubna nuclotron. Simple estimates show that a cascade of crossed laser beams would be necessary to provide additional acceleration to gold ions of the order of GeV/nucleon.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0612175,
title = {Laser acceleration of ion beams},
author = {I. A. Egorova and A. V. Filatov and A. V. Prozorkevich and S. A. Smolyansky and D. B. Blaschke and M. Chubaryan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0612175},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, Talk at the Helmholtz International Summer School "Dense Matter in heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics", August 21 - September 1, 2006, JINR Dubna, Russia; v2, misprints corrected