Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes

Dario Del Sorbo; David R. Blackman; Remi Capdessus; Kristina Small; Cody Slade-Lowther; Wen Luo; Matthew J. Duff; Alexander P. L. Robinson; Paul McKenna; Zheng-Ming Sheng; John Pasley; Christopher Ridgers

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Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes

Dario Del Sorbo, David R. Blackman, Remi Capdessus, Kristina Small, Cody Slade-Lowther, Wen Luo, Matthew J. Duff, Alexander P. L. Robinson, Paul McKenna, Zheng-Ming Sheng, John Pasley, Christopher Ridgers

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The radiation pressure of next generation high-intensity lasers could efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrodynamic effects play an important role in the interaction of these lasers with matter. We show that these quantum-electrodynamic effects lead to the production of a critical density pair-plasma which completely absorbs the laser pulse and consequently reduces the accelerated ion energy and efficiency by 30-50%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Volume	10241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271137
Publication status	Published - 17 May 2017

Keywords

radiation
lasers
plasmas
ions
GeV energies

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Del Sorbo, D., Blackman, D. R., Capdessus, R., Small, K., Slade-Lowther, C., Luo, W., Duff, M. J., Robinson, A. P. L., McKenna, P., Sheng, Z.-M., Pasley, J., & Ridgers, C. (2017). Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes. In Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III (Vol. 10241). Article 102411I. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271137

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Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes. / Del Sorbo, Dario; Blackman, David R.; Capdessus, Remi et al.
Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III. Vol. 10241 Bellingham, Washington, 2017. 102411I.

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