Proton acceleration experiments with Z-Petawatt.

Conference · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1022958

Arefiev, A ^[1]; Schaumann, G ^[2]; Deppert, O ^[2]; Rambo, Patrick K; Roth, M ^[2]; Geissel, Matthias; Schwarz, Jens; Sefkow, Adam B; Atherton, Briggs W; Kimmel, Mark W; Schollmeier, Marius; Breizman, B ^[1]

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1. University of Texas at Austin
2. Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany

The outline of this presentation: (1) Proton acceleration with high-power lasers - Target Normal Sheath Acceleration concept; (2) Proton acceleration with mass-reduced targets - Breaking the 60 MeV threshold; (3) Proton beam divergence control - Novel focusing target geometry; and (4) New experimental capability development - Proton radiography on Z.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1022958
• Report Number(s): SAND2010-5436C; TRN: US1104436
• Resource Relation: Conference: Proposed for presentation at the Conference on High Power Lasers held August 3-5, 2010 in Santa Fe, NM.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACCELERATION
FOCUSING
GEOMETRY
LASERS
PROTON BEAMS
PROTON RADIOGRAPHY
PROTONS
TARGETS