Experimental results on laser driven proton acceleration from the solid hydrogen ice target published in prestigious journal, the Physical Review X
In November, 2016, an article “Proton Acceleration Driven by a Nanosecond Laser from a Cryogenic Thin Solid-Hydrogen Ribbon” was published in the prestigious journal, the Physical Review X (IF = 8,7).
In this article, results from the experiment of the laser driven proton acceleration from the solid hydrogen ice target with a temperature of 10 K (-263 deg C) were presented. This experiment was performed under collaboration of scientists from PALS (the joint laboratory of IPP and IoP CAS), ELI Beamlines (IoP CAS), and INAC-CEA in Grenoble (France).
Important role for diagnostics of generated plasma played our unique synchronized femtosecond TiSa laser by means of it were recorded interferograms of expanding plasma with high time resolution. The interferograms were analyzed by the team of Prof. T. Pisarczyk from IPPLM Warsaw which is under the long-term cooperation in experiments carried out at the PALS facility.
In the future, the "pure" proton beams generated from a hydrogen ice targed can be used for
example in medicine (proton beam therapy) or in inertial fusion as the fast ignitor of
thermonuclear reaction. You can read more
here.
Photos: PALS.
8 Dec 2016
