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SUBMITTER: Stockem Novo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951642 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stockem Novo A A Kaluza M C MC Fonseca R A RA Silva L O LO
Scientific reports 20160720
We demonstrate how to tune the main ion acceleration mechanism in laser-plasma interactions to collisionless shock acceleration, thus achieving control over the final ion beam properties (e. g. maximum energy, divergence, number of accelerated ions). We investigate this technique with three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations and illustrate a possible experimental realisation. The setup consists of an isolated solid density target, which is preheated by a first laser pulse to initiate targe ...[more]