Investigations of ultrafast charge dynamics in laser-irradiated targets by a self probing technique employing laser driven protons

Year: 2016

Authors: Ahmed H., Kar S., Cantono G., Nersisyan G., Brauckmann S., Doria D., Gwynne D., Macchi A., Naughton K., Willi O., Lewis C.L.S., Borghesi M.

Autors Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen\’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK; Department of Physics “E. Fermi”, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Research Unit Adriano Gozzini, via G. Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy; Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

Abstract: The divergent and broadband proton beams produced by the target normal sheath acceleration mechanism provide the unique opportunity to probe, in a point-projection imaging scheme, the dynamics of the transient electric and magnetic fields produced during laser-plasma interactions. Commonly such experimental setup entails two intense laser beams, where the interaction produced by one beam is probed with the protons produced by the second. We present here experimental studies of the ultra-fast charge dynamics along a wire connected to laser irradiated target carried out by employing a

Journal/Review: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Volume: 829      Pages from: 172  to: 175

KeyWords: laser-plasma acceleration; ion acceleration; proton probing
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.078

Citations: 17
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