Study of the parameter dependence of laser-accelerated protons from a hydrogen cluster source
Study of the parameter dependence of laser-accelerated protons from a hydrogen cluster source
Aurand, B.; Schwind, K. M.; Toncian, T.; Aktan, E.; Cerchez, M.; Lessmann, L.; Mannweiler, C.; Prasad, R.; Khoukaz, A.; Willi, O.
We present a study on laser-driven proton acceleration from a hydrogen cluster target. Aiming for the optimisation of the proton source, we performed a detailed parametric scan of the interaction conditions by varying different laser and the target parameters. While the underlying process of a Coulomb-explosion delivers moderate energies, in the range of 100 s of keV, the use of hydrogen as target material comes with the benefit of a debris-free, single-species proton acceleration scheme, enabling high repetition-rate experiments, which are very robust against shot-to-shot fluctuations.
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New Journal of Physics 22(2020), 033025
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab7bf0
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