@inproceedings{ed7c17a6900b49c8b3241c30b6b69e20,
title = "Acceleration of ions up to 20MeV/nucleon in the ultrashort, high-intensity regime",
abstract = "The measurements reported here provide scaling laws for the ion acceleration process in the regime of ultrashort (50 fs), ultrahigh contrast (1010) and ultrahigh intensity (> 1020W/cm 2), never investigated previously. The scaling of the accelerated ion energies was studied by varying a number of parameters such as target thickness (down to 10nm), target material (C and Al) and laser light polar- ization (circular and linear) at 35° and normal laser incidence. A twofold increase in proton energy and an order of magnitude enhancement in ion flux have been observed over the investigated thickness range at 35° angle of incidence. Further- more, at normal laser incidence, measured peak proton energies of about 20 MeV are observed almost independently of the target thickness over a wide range (50nm- 10 μm). 1.",
author = "R. Prasad and S. Ter-Avetisyan and D. Doria and Quinn, \{K. E.\} and L. Romagnani and M. Zepf and M. Borghesi and A. Andreev and Foster, \{P. S.\} and Brenner, \{C. M.\} and P. Gallegos and D. Neely and Green, \{J. S.\} and Streeter, \{M. J.V.\} and Carroll, \{D. C.\} and O. Tresca and P. McKenna and Dover, \{N. P.\} and Palmer, \{C. A.J.\} and J. Schreiber and Z. Najmudin",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3254/978-1-61499-129-8-213",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781614991281",
series = "Proceedings of the International School of Physics {"}Enrico Fermi{"}",
pages = "213--220",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International School of Physics {"}Enrico Fermi{"}",
note = "International School of Physics {"}Enrico Fermi{"} on Laser-Plasma Acceleration ; Conference date: 20-06-2011 Through 25-06-2011",
}