Tri-stage quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration from a multi-species thick target
Abstract
We show that quasimonoenergetic proton beams can be generated through a multi-ion thick target irradiated by a circularly polarized laser pulse. After disrupted by the transverse instabilities in the laser pressure acceleration process, heavy ions as majority species can still provide a co-moving electric field. Different from the dynamics using ultrathin foil, protons with small doped rates can experience a full tri-stage quasimonoenergetic acceleration (hole boring, sheath boosting, and free expansion stages) in this scenario. A theoretical model is developed to explain the proton energy evolution in detail and verified by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Finally, the scaling of proton energy with laser intensity indicates that the 200 MeV proton beam with narrow energy spread (3%–10%) and sufficiently large charges (1010–1011) required for medical applications can be obtained using 100s TW class laser systems in near future.
- Authors:
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[1];
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Engineering Physics; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Engineering Physics
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1468690
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1459696
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; ACI-1339893; PHY-1415386; PHY-500630; 11425521; 11475101; 11535006; 11775125; SC0008316; SC0008491; SC0010064; SC0014260
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
Citation Formats
Wan, Y., Pai, C. -H., Hua, J. F., Wu, Y. P., Lu, W., Li, F., Zhang, C. J., Xu, X. L., Joshi, C., and Mori, W. B. Tri-stage quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration from a multi-species thick target. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5029556.
Wan, Y., Pai, C. -H., Hua, J. F., Wu, Y. P., Lu, W., Li, F., Zhang, C. J., Xu, X. L., Joshi, C., & Mori, W. B. Tri-stage quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration from a multi-species thick target. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029556
Wan, Y., Pai, C. -H., Hua, J. F., Wu, Y. P., Lu, W., Li, F., Zhang, C. J., Xu, X. L., Joshi, C., and Mori, W. B. Tue .
"Tri-stage quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration from a multi-species thick target". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029556. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1468690.
@article{osti_1468690,
title = {Tri-stage quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration from a multi-species thick target},
author = {Wan, Y. and Pai, C. -H. and Hua, J. F. and Wu, Y. P. and Lu, W. and Li, F. and Zhang, C. J. and Xu, X. L. and Joshi, C. and Mori, W. B.},
abstractNote = {We show that quasimonoenergetic proton beams can be generated through a multi-ion thick target irradiated by a circularly polarized laser pulse. After disrupted by the transverse instabilities in the laser pressure acceleration process, heavy ions as majority species can still provide a co-moving electric field. Different from the dynamics using ultrathin foil, protons with small doped rates can experience a full tri-stage quasimonoenergetic acceleration (hole boring, sheath boosting, and free expansion stages) in this scenario. A theoretical model is developed to explain the proton energy evolution in detail and verified by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Finally, the scaling of proton energy with laser intensity indicates that the 200 MeV proton beam with narrow energy spread (3%–10%) and sufficiently large charges (1010–1011) required for medical applications can be obtained using 100s TW class laser systems in near future.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5029556},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 7,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {7}
}
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Figure 1: Snapshots of (a)–(c) show the lineouts of electron density $n_e$ (red), heavy ion density $n_i$ (green), proton density $n_H$ (blue), and longitudinal electric field Ez (purple) along the laser propagation axis (y = 0) at three different times. (d)–(f) show the longitudinal phase spaces ($z – P_z$) ofmore »
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