Vorsitzende der Sitzung
Session 11 - Short Pulse 3: Session 11 - Short Pulse 3
- Alexander Pukhov (Uni Dusseldorf)
High power laser systems driving relativistic plasmas have applications in the generation of high energy, short duration particle and photon secondary sources. These mechanisms are typically extremely sensitive to laser contrast - pre-pulses and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) that can trigger an expanding plasma long before the peak intensity is reached. As we enter the multi-petawatt...
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Laser-driven proton acceleration has long been limited by an apparent trade-off between laser-to-ion conversion efficiency and maximum particle energy. While target-normal-sheath acceleration (TNSA) remains robust, it typically suffers from low efficiency and thermal-like spectra at the multi-MeV level. Here we...
With the goal of investigating the creation of extremely neutron rich isotopes around the waiting point of the rapid neutron capture process (r-process) at N=126, Habs et al. [1] proposed the so-called fission-fusion reaction mechanism. This mechanism exploits the inherently nearly solid-state bunch density of laser ion accelerated ions, resulting high cross-sections for the creation of exotic...