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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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%.
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Del Sorbo, Dario, Blackman, David R., Capdessus, Remi ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Book Section |
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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: | 01 Jan 2021 07:04 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/61054 |
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