2002/11/26 by T. Zh. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, K. Nishihara +9
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.plasm-ph #physics.acc-ph #physics.comp-ph
published as Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 89, no. 17 (2002) 175003
arxiv created 2002/11/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
In order to achieve a high quality, i. e. monoergetic, intense ion beam, we propose the use of a double layer target. The first layer, at the target front, consists of high-Z atoms, while the second (rear) layer is a thin coating of low-Z atoms. The high quality proton beams from the double layer target, irradiated by an ultra-intense laser pulse, are demonstrated with three dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations.