Bulletin of the American Physical Society
60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 63, Number 11
Monday–Friday, November 5–9, 2018; Portland, Oregon
Session GO7: Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction and Particles (ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons) II
9:30 AM–11:54 AM,
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
OCC
Room: B117-119
Chair: Derek Mariscal, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.DPP.GO7.12
Abstract: GO7.00012 : Laser-driven acceleration of titanium ions and the calibration of the ion beam diagnostic*
11:42 AM–11:54 AM
Presenter:
Joseph Strehlow
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Authors:
Joseph Strehlow
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Pierre Forestier-Colleoni
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Jun Li
(Univ of California - San Diego)
George M Petrov
(Naval Research Lab)
Christopher S McGuffey
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Jonathan L Peebles
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Shu Zhang
(Univ of California - San Diego)
Farhat N Beg
(Univ of California - San Diego)
A super-intense laser pulse, incident on a thin foil target, can create plasma structures with accelerating fields on the order of TV/m, accelerating ions to multi-MeV energies. The 1020 W/cm2, linearly polarized Texas Petawatt Laser (TPW) facility was employed to accelerate high energy titanium ions from ultrathin (60 to 200 nm) planar titanium foil targets. A clear optimum target thickness is observed, with Ti19+ ions exceeding 200 MeV from 80 nm targets. Two Thomson parabolas, spectrometers that separate ions by their charge-to-mass ratio, were aligned to target normal and close to the laser propagation axis. In the spectrometers, BAS-TR image plates were used to detect the ions. A plastic grid of CR-39 was mounted in front of the image plates to measure absolute counts from the deposited titanium ions. This calibration enables the extraction of absolute energy spectra of the titanium ions. Established analytical models, such as target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) and radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) are applied, along with the fully relativistic 2-D particle-in-cell code EPOCH, to provide insight into the underpinning physics responsible for ion acceleration in this ultrathin target regime.
*This work is supported by the AFOSR under the award number FA9550-14-1-0282.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.DPP.GO7.12
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