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Physics of Plasmas / Volume 17 / Issue 6 / ARTICLES / Lasers, Particle Beams, Accelerators, Radiation Generation

Phys. Plasmas 17, 063101 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3428740 (6 pages)

Tomography of an ultrafast laser driven proton source

S. Ter-Avetisyan1, M. Schnürer2, P. V. Nickles2,3, W. Sandner2, M. Borghesi1, T. Nakamura4, and K. Mima5

1Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
2Max-Born-Institute, Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
3WCU Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology 1, Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712, Republic of Korea
4Kansai Photon Science Institute (JAEA), 8-1 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
5Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

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(Received 30 July 2009; accepted 21 April 2010; published online 4 June 2010)

Using a multichannel Thomson spectrometer we have implemented a tomographic approach allowing the reconstruction of the emission characteristic of a laser driven proton source with high energy and spatial resolution. The results demonstrate the complexity of the temporal and spatial characteristics of such a source. The emitted proton beam, which is laminar and divergent at high energies, becomes convergent at low energies. This implies that a fraction of the proton beam having this kinetic energy is emitted in a collimated way from the target at the “turning point” between these two behaviors. Only a finite fraction of the target surface is contributing to the ion spectrum, which is measured at a specific angle within the beam cone. Therefore the momentum distribution of the protons in the emitted beam at any point in space can be controlled by determining the proton source area.

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Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
  3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  4. SUMMARY

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

imaging, laser beam applications, proton effects, proton sources, Thomson effect, tomography

PACS

  • 72.15.Jf

    Thermoelectric and thermomagnetic effects

  • 61.80.Jh

    Ion radiation effects

  • 61.82.-d

    Radiation effects on specific materials

  • 42.62.-b

    Laser applications

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