Ion acceleration regimes in underdense plasmas

Francesco Pegoraro; Sergei V. Bulanov; Francesco Califano; Timur Zh Esirkepov; Tatiana V. Lisejkina; Natalia M. Naumova; Hartmut Ruhl; Vital A. Vshivkov

doi:10.1109/27.893311

Ion acceleration regimes in underdense plasmas

Francesco Pegoraro
, Sergei V. Bulanov
, Francesco Califano
, Timur Zh Esirkepov
, Tatiana V. Lisejkina
, Natalia M. Naumova
, Hartmut Ruhl
, Vital A. Vshivkov

University of Pisa
Università di Milano-Bicocca
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
SD-RAS

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Abstract

Acceleration of large populations of ions up to high (relativistic) energies may represent one of the most important and interesting tools that can be provided by the interaction of petawatt laser pulses with matter. In this paper, the basic mechanisms of ion acceleration by short laser pulses are studied in underdense plasmas. The ion acceleration does not originate directly from the pulse fields, but it is mediated by the electrons in the form of electrostatic fields originating from channeling, double layer formation, and Coulomb explosion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1226-1232
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	28
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/27.893311
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2000
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Coulomb explosion
Ion acceleration
Particle-in-cell simulation
Relativistic plasmas
Ultraintense laser pulses

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