Generation of high-quality mega-electron volt proton beams with intense-laser-driven nanotube accelerator

Journal Article · Mon Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4798594· OSTI ID:22162860

Murakami, M. ^[1]; Tanaka, M. ^[2]

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1. Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)
2. Department of Engineering, Chubu University, Aichi 487-8501 (Japan)

An ion acceleration scheme using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is proposed, in which embedded fragments of low-Z materials are irradiated by an ultrashort intense laser to eject substantial numbers of electrons. Due to the resultant characteristic electrostatic field, the nanotube and embedded materials play the roles of the barrel and bullets of a gun, respectively, to produce highly collimated and quasimonoenergetic ion beams. Three-dimensional particle simulations, that take all the two-body Coulomb interactions into account, demonstrate generation of quasimonoenergetic MeV-order proton beams using nanometer-size CNT under a super-intense electrostatic field {approx}10{sup 14} V m{sup -1}.

• OSTI ID: 22162860
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 16; Other Information: (c) 2013 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ION BEAMS
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