First demonstration of multi-MeV proton acceleration from a cryogenic hydrogen ribbon target

Stephan D. Kraft, Lieselotte Obst, Josefine Metzkes-Ng +9

We show efficient laser driven proton acceleration up to 14MeV from a 50 $\mu$m thick cryogenic hydrogen ribbon. Pulses of the short pulse laser ELFIE at LULI with a pulse length of…