Laser creates record-breaking protons
Laser creates record-breaking protons
Cartlidge, E.; Flippo, K.; Gaillard, S.; Bussmann, M.; Kluge, T.
An international group of physicists working at the Los Alamos Laboratory in the US has used a laser to generate 67.5 MeV protons the highest-energy protons yet produced in this way. Their work points the way to new laser-based devices for proton therapy, which would be far smaller and cheaper than existing particle-accelerator sources.
Keywords: cone target; proton acceleration; laser; plasma; trident; high-energy; record
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