Radiation Pressure Dominate Regime of Relativistic Ion Acceleration
arXiv:physics/0405083 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175003
Abstract
The electromagnetic radiation pressure becomes dominant in the interaction of the ultra-intense electromagnetic wave with a solid material, thus the wave energy can be transformed efficiently into the energy of ions representing the material and the high density ultra-short relativistic ion beam is generated. This regime can be seen even with present-day technology, when an exawatt laser will be built. As an application, we suggest the laser-driven heavy ion collider.
10 pages, 4 figures