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Diagnostics for studies of novel laser ion acceleration mechanisms.
Mark YeungS. KuschelThomas KuehlThomas KuehlChristian RödelBastian AurandBrendan DromeyVincent BagnoudVincent BagnoudPaul NeumayerMarkus RothClaes-göran WahlströmKun LiF. WagnerMatthew ZepfDaniel JungLovisa Senjesubject
Materials scienceIon beamMass-to-charge ratioSpectrometerbusiness.industryAtom and Molecular Physics and Optics/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3105LaserIon gunlaw.inventionIonAccelerationOpticslawPhysics::Plasma PhysicsPlasma diagnosticsAtomic physicsbusinessInstrumentationdescription
Diagnostic for investigating and distinguishing different laser ion acceleration mechanisms has been developed and successfully tested. An ion separation wide angle spectrometer can simultaneously investigate three important aspects of the laser plasma interaction: (1) acquire angularly resolved energy spectra for two ion species, (2) obtain ion energy spectra for multiple species, separated according to their charge to mass ratio, along selected axes, and (3) collect laser radiation reflected from and transmitted through the target and propagating in the same direction as the ion beam. Thus, the presented diagnostic constitutes a highly adaptable tool for accurately studying novel acceleration mechanisms in terms of their angular energy distribution, conversion efficiency, and plasma density evolution.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-01 | The Review of scientific instruments |