Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex

Park, J.; Bulanov, S. S.; Bin, J.; Ji, Q.; Steinke, S.; Vay, J. -L.; Geddes, C. G.  R.; Schroeder, C. B.; Leemans, W. P.; Schenkel, T.; Esarey, E.

doi:10.1063/1.5094045

Title: Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex

Journal Article · 22 October 2019 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5094045 · OSTI ID:1577784

Park, J. ^[1]; Bulanov, S. S. ^[1];

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^[1]; Geddes, C. G. R. ^[1]; Schroeder, C. B. ^[1];

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

© 2019 U.S. Government. Magnetic Vortex Acceleration (MVA) from near critical density targets is one of the promising schemes of laser-driven ion acceleration. 3D particle-in-cell simulations are used to explore a more extensive laser-target parameter space than previously reported in the literature as well as to study the laser pulse coupling to the target, the structure of the fields, and the properties of the accelerated ion beam in the MVA scheme. The efficiency of acceleration depends on the coupling of the laser energy to the self-generated channel in the target. The accelerated proton beams demonstrate a high level of collimation with achromatic angular divergence, and carry a significant amount of charge. For petawatt-class lasers, this acceleration regime provides a favorable scaling of the maximum ion energy with the laser power for the optimized interaction parameters. The megatesla-level magnetic fields generated by the laser-driven coaxial plasma structure in the target are a prerequisite for accelerating protons to the energy of several hundred mega-electron-volts.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; 17-SC-20-SC

OSTI ID:: 1577784

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1571335; OSTI ID: 1582619

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 26, Issue 10; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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