Bulletin of the American Physical Society

53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 56, Number 16

Monday–Friday, November 14–18, 2011; Salt Lake City, Utah

Session Index

Session NO7: Laser Ion Acceleration	Show Abstracts
Chair: Manuel Hegelich, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Ballroom H

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:30AM - 9:42AM		NO7.00001: Shortpulse-contrast maximum energy limitations in high-energy, ultra-intense laser proton acceleration M. Schollmeier, M. Geissel, A. Sefkow, B. Atherton, K. Flippo, D. Offerman, S. Gaillard, T. Kluge, T. Burris-Mog, A. Arefiev, B. Breizman Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:42AM - 9:54AM		NO7.00002: Advanced techniques in laser-ion acceleration: Conversion efficiency, beam distribution and energy scaling in the Break-Out Afterburner regime Daniel Jung, Lin Yin, Brian Albright, Donald Gautier, Rainer Hoerlein, Randall Johnson, Daniel Kiefer, Sam Letzring, Rahul Shah, Sasikumar Palaniyappan, Tsutomu Shimada, Dietrich Habs, Juan Fernandez, Manuel Hegelich Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:54AM - 10:06AM		NO7.00003: Fast Ignition with Laser-Driven Ion Beams Juan C. Fernandez, B.J. Albright, K.J. Bowers, D.C. Gautier, B.M. Hegelich, C.-K. Huang, D. Jung, S. Letzring, S. Palaniyappan, R. Shah, L. Yin, H.-C. Wu, J.J. Honrubia Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:06AM - 10:18AM		NO7.00004: Ion Focusing Experiments Using Cusped Hemi Targets and 75 MeV Protons From The High-Contrast LANL Trident Laser Kirk Flippo, D.T. Offermann, M. Schollmeier, S.A. Gaillard, T. Bartal, D. Welch, D. Rose, R.P. Johnson, T. Shimada, T. Burris-Mog, J.A. Cobble, T.E. Cowan, M. Geissel, T. Kluge, G. Petrov, Tz. Petrova, J. Ren, A.B. Sefkow, M.J. Schmitt Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:18AM - 10:30AM		NO7.00005: Generation and focusing of short pulse laser accelerated protons M.E. Foord, T. Bartal, C. Bellei, M.H. Key, R.B. Stephens, P.K. Patel, H.S. McLean, K. Flippo, L. VanWoerkom, M. Roth, F.N. Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:30AM - 10:42AM		NO7.00006: Characterization and focusing of laser-accelerated proton beams from hemisphere shells B. Qiao, T. Bartal, M.E. Foord, R.B. Stephens, M.S. Wei, P. Patel, H. McLean, M. Key, F.N. Beg Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:42AM - 10:54AM		NO7.00007: Narrow Energy-Spread Proton Beams Generated in a Gas Jet by High-Power CO$_{2}$ Laser Pulses D. Haberberger, S. Tochitsky, C. Gong, W. Mori, C. Joshi, F. Fiuza, R. Fonseca, L. Silva Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:54AM - 11:06AM		NO7.00008: Laser Ion Acceleration Using Few Times Critical Density Plasma Michael Helle, Daniel Gordon, Dmitri Kaganovich, Antonio Ting Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:06AM - 11:18AM		NO7.00009: Ion emission in a LWFA at the wake-vacuum boundary using ionization injection Nuno Lemos, K.A. Marsh, A. Pak, J.L. Martins, J.M. Dias, C. Joshi Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:18AM - 11:30AM		NO7.00010: Features of ion acceleration from ultra-thin foils in the radiation-pressure regime Nicholas Dover Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:30AM - 11:42AM		NO7.00011: Laser Acceleration of Ultra-thin Multi-Ion Foil: Accelerating Quasi-Monoenergetic Proton Beam by Combination of Radiation Pressure and Heavy-Ion Coulomb Repulsion Chuan-Sheng Liu, Tung-Chang Liu, Xi Shao, Bengt Eliasson, Min-Qing He, Jao-Jang Su, Galina Dudnikova, Roald Sagdeev Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:42AM - 11:54AM		NO7.00012: Acceleration of Deuteron Ions from Thin Foil Targets in the Absence of Contaminant Layer Protons and Carbon J.T. Morrison, C. Willis, P. Belencourt, E. McCary, R. Daskalova, E. Chowdhary, M. Storm, K. Akli, L.V. Woerkom, R.R. Freeman, S.H. Feldman, G. Dyer, A. Bernste, T. Ditmire Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:54AM - 12:06PM		NO7.00013: Enhancing ion acceleration using composite targets S.S. Bulanov, M. Chen, L. Yu, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, W.P. Leemans Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:06PM - 12:18PM		NO7.00014: Circular polarization effects in ion acceleration from high intensity, short pulse laser interactions F. Dollar, C. Zulick, S.S. Bulanov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, T. Matsuoka, C. McGuffey, A.G.R. Thomas, L. Willingale, V. Yanovsky, A. Maksimchuk, K. Krushelnick, G. Petrov, J. Davis Preview Abstract
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:18PM - 12:30PM		NO7.00015: Proton energy increase and X-ray yields from micro-cone targets Sandrine A. Gaillard, T. Burris-Mog, M. Bussmann, T.E. Cowan, T. Kluge, K.A. Flippo, R.P. Johnson, D.T. Offermann, J. Ren, T. Shimada, M. Schollmeier Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 56, Number 16

Monday–Friday, November 14–18, 2011; Salt Lake City, Utah

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Session NO7: Laser Ion Acceleration

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