Recent progress of laser driven particle acceleration at Peking University

doi:10.1007/s11467-013-0372-2

Front. Phys.

2013, Vol. 8

Issue (5) : 577-584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-013-0372-2

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Recent progress of laser driven particle acceleration at Peking University

Xue-Qing Yan(

), Chen Lin, Hai-Yang Lu, Kun Zhu, Yu-Bin Zou, Hong-Yong Wang, Bing Liu, Shuan Zhao, Jiao Zhu, Yi-Xing Geng, He-Zheng Fu, Yong Shang, Chao Cao, Yin-Ren Shou, Wei Song, Yuan-Rong Lu, Zhong-Xi Yuan, Zhi-Yu Guo, Xian-Tu He, Jia-Er Chen

State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology and CAPT, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Abstract

Recently, radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) has been proposed and extensively studied, which shows that circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses can accelerate mono-energetic ion bunches in a phase-stable-acceleration (PSA) way from ultrathin foils. It is found that self-organizing proton beam can be stably accelerated to GeV in the interaction of a CP laser with a planar target at 10²² W/cm². A project called Compact LAser Plasma proton Accelerator (CLAPA) is approved by MOST in China recently. A prototype of laser driven proton accelerator (1 to 15 MeV/1 Hz) based on the PSA mechanism and plasma lens is going to be built at Peking University in the next five years. It will be upgraded to 200 MeV later for applications such as cancer therapy, plasma imaging and fast ignition for inertial confine fusion.

Keywords phase-stable acceleration (PSA) laser ion acceleration ignition

Corresponding Author(s): Yan Xue-Qing,Email:x.yan@pku.edu.cn

Issue Date: 01 October 2013

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Xue-Qing Yan,Chen Lin,Hai-Yang Lu, et al. Recent progress of laser driven particle acceleration at Peking University[J]. Front. Phys. , 2013, 8(5): 577-584.

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