Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes

Del Sorbo, Dario and Blackman, David R. and Capdessus, Remi and Small, Kristina and Slade-Lowther, Cody and Luo, Wen and Duff, Matthew J. and Robinson, Alexander P. L. and McKenna, Paul and Sheng, Zheng-Ming and Pasley, John and Ridgers, Christopher (2017) Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes. In: Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III. SPIE, Bellingham, Washington.

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Abstract

The radiation pressure of next generation high-intensity lasers could efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrodynamic effects play an important role in the interaction of these lasers with matter. We show that these quantum-electrodynamic effects lead to the production of a critical density pair-plasma which completely absorbs the laser pulse and consequently reduces the accelerated ion energy and efficiency by 30-50%.

Author(s):Del Sorbo, Dario, Blackman, David R., Capdessus, Remi, Small, Kristina, Slade-Lowther, Cody, Luo, Wen, Duff, Matthew J., Robinson, Alexander P. L., McKenna, Paul, Sheng, Zheng-Ming, Pasley, John and Ridgers, Christopher
Item type:Book Section
ID code:61054
Keywords:radiation, lasers, plasmas, ions, GeV energies, Plasma physics. Ionized gases, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Subjects:Science > Physics > Plasma physics. Ionized gases
Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited:23 Jun 2017 09:22
Last modified:03 Jan 2019 14:38
URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/61054
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