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Title: Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex

Abstract

© 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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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
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 Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1577784
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1571335; OSTI ID: 1582619
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; 17-SC-20-SC
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 26; Journal Issue: 10; 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

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., and Esarey, E.. Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5094045.
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.. Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5094045
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., and Esarey, E.. Tue . "Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5094045. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1577784.
@article{osti_1577784,
title = {Ion acceleration in laser generated megatesla magnetic vortex},
author = {Park, J. and Bulanov, S. S. and Bin, J. and Ji, Q. and Steinke, S. and Vay, J. -L. and Geddes, C. G. R. and Schroeder, C. B. and Leemans, W. P. and Schenkel, T. and Esarey, E.},
abstractNote = {© 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.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5094045},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 10,
volume = 26,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {10}
}

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TABLE I TABLE I: Initial parameters of 3D simulations organized into five groups; a0: dimensionless vector potential, $τ$: laser pulse duration, ne: electron density, w0: laser waist, P: laser power, EL: laser energy, and Ei,max: maximum ion kinetic energy. Each group has a different laser spot size w0. The laser power variesmore » from 0.22 to 1.96 PW. The electron density is chosen by the optimum condition in Eq. (3), except in group V. The spot sizes from groups I, IV, and V match the channel radius in Eq. (2).« less

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