Laser acceleration of ion bunches at the front surface of overdense plasmas
Plasma Physics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
The acceleration of ions in the interaction of high intensity laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated with particle-in-cell simulations. For circular polarization of the laser pulses, high-density ion bunches moving into the plasma are generated at the laser-plasma interaction surface. A simple analytical model accounts for the numerical observations and provides scaling laws for the ion bunch energy and generation time as a function of pulse intensity and plasma density.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0411023,
title = {Laser acceleration of ion bunches at the front surface of overdense plasmas},
author = {Andrea Macchi and Federica Cattani and Tatiana V. Liseykina and Fulvio Cornolti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0411023},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures; revised version