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Towards the demonstration of photon-photon collision with compact lasers
L. Q. Han, J. Cai, Y. R. Shou +3
We report a proposal to observe the two-photon Breit-Wheeler process in plasma driven by compact lasers. A high charge electron bunch can be generated from laser plasma wakefield a…
A New Injection and Acceleration Scheme of Positrons in the Laser-Plasma Bubble Regime
Z. Y. Xu, C. F. Xiao, H. Y. Lu +15
A novel approach for positron injection and acceleration in laser driven plasma wakefield is proposed. A theoretical model is developed and confirmed through PIC simulation. One ri…
Laser acceleration of highly energetic carbon ions using a double-layer target composed of slightly underdense plasma and ultrathin foil
W. J. Ma, I Jong Kim, J. Q. Yu +18
We report the experimental generation of highly energetic carbon ions up to 48 MeV per nucleon by shooting double-layer targets composed of well-controlled slightly underdense plas…
Brilliant GeV Gamma-ray flash from Inverse Compton Scattering in QED Regime
Zheng Gong, Ronghao Hu, Haiyang Lu +4
An all-optical scheme is proposed for studying a laser-plasma based incoherent photon emission from inverse Compton scattering in quantum electrodynamic (QED) regime. A theoretical…
Non-Maxwellian electron distributions resulting from direct laser acceleration in near-critical plasmas
T. Toncian, C. Wang, E. McCary +17
The irradiation of few nm thick targets by a finite-contrast high-intensity short-pulse laser results in a strong pre-expansion of these targets at the arrival time of the main pul…
Optimization of the Combined Proton Acceleration Regime with a Target Composition Scheme
W. P. Yao, B. W. Li, C. Y. Zheng +2
A target composition scheme to optimize the combined proton acceleration regime is presented and verified by two-dimensional particle-in-cell (2D PIC) simulations by using an ultra…
Suppression of transverse ablative Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability in the hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration by using elliptically polarized laser pulses
Dong Wu, C. Y. Zheng, B. Qiao +4
It is shown that the transverse Rayleigh-Taylor-like (RT) instability in the hole boring radiation pressure acceleration can be suppressed by using elliptically polarized (EP) lase…
Bright subcycle XUV pulse from a single dense relativistic electron sheet
W. J. Ma, J. H. Bin, H. Y. Wang +11
Relativistic electrons are prodigious sources of photons. Beyond classical accelerators, ultra-intense laser interactions are of particular interest as they allow the coherent moti…
Suppressing longitudinal double-layer oscillations by using elliptically polarized laser pulses in the hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration regime
Dong Wu, C. Y. Zheng, C. T. Zhou +3
It is shown that well collimated mono-energetic ion beams with a large particle number can be generated in the hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration regime by using an ellipt…
The breather like penetration of the ultra-short linearly polarized laser into over-dense plasmas
Dong Wu, C. Y. Zheng, X. T. He
Relativistic electromagnetic penetration behavior is reexamined in the relativistic transparency region. The interaction is modeled by the relativistic hydrodynamic equations coupl…
Laser-driven collimated tens-GeV monoenergetic protons from mass-limited target plus preformed channel
F. L. Zheng, S. Z. Wu, H. C. Wu +5
Proton acceleration by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiating a target with cross-section smaller than the laser spot size and connected to a parabolic density channel is investigat…
Determination of Carrier-Envelope Phase of Relativistic Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by Thomson Backscattering Spectroscopy
M. Wen, L. L. Jin, H. Y. Wang +4
A novel method is proposed to determine the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a relativistic few-cycle laser pulse via the central frequency of the isolated light generated from Thom…
Generating sub-TeV quasi-monoenergetic proton beam by an ultra-relativistically intense laser in the snowplow regime
F. L. Zheng, H. Y. Wang, X. Q. Yan +5
Snowplow ion acceleration is presented, using an ultra-relativistically intense laser pulse irradi- ating on a combination target, where the relativistic proton beam generated by r…
Efficient ion acceleration by collective laser-driven electron dynamics with ultra-thin foil targets
S. Steinke, A. Henig, M. Schnürer +11
Experiments on ion acceleration by irradiation of ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils, with thicknesses well below the skin depth, irradiated with laser pulses of ultra-high…
Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams Driven by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses
A. Henig, S. Steinke, M. Schnürer +11
We present experimental studies on ion acceleration from ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils irradiated by ultra-high contrast laser pulses of energy 0.7 J focussed to peak…
Theory of laser ion acceleration from a foil target of nanometers
X. Q. Yan, T. Tajima, M. Hegelich +2
A theory for laser ion acceleration is presented to evaluate the maximum ion energy in the interaction of ultrahigh contrast (UHC) intense laser with a nanometer-scale foil. In thi…
Self-organizing GeV, nano-Coulomb, collimated proton beam from laser foil interaction at 7 * 10^21 W/cm2
X. Q. Yan, H. C. Wu, Z. M. Sheng +2
We report on a self-organizing, quasi-stable regime of laser proton acceleration, producing 1 GeV nano-Coulomb proton bunches from laser foil interaction at an intensity of 7*10^21…