Radiation Pressure Dominate Regime of Relativistic Ion Acceleration
Plasma Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Accelerator Physics
Computational Physics
Space Physics
Abstract
The electromagnetic radiation pressure becomes dominant in the interaction of the ultra-intense electromagnetic wave with a solid material, thus the wave energy can be transformed efficiently into the energy of ions representing the material and the high density ultra-short relativistic ion beam is generated. This regime can be seen even with present-day technology, when an exawatt laser will be built. As an application, we suggest the laser-driven heavy ion collider.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0405083,
title = {Radiation Pressure Dominate Regime of Relativistic Ion Acceleration},
author = {T. Esirkepov and M. Borghesi and S. V. Bulanov and G. Mourou and T. Tajima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0405083},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages, 4 figures