Forward ion acceleration and nuclear reactions on a table-top driven by a high-intensity laser

A. Maksimchuk; K. Nemoto; V. Y. Bychenkov; K. Flippo; S. Banerjee; D. Umstadter; G. Mourou

doi:10.1117/12.418790

Forward ion acceleration and nuclear reactions on a table-top driven by a high-intensity laser

A. Maksimchuk, K. Nemoto, V. Y. Bychenkov, K. Flippo, S. Banerjee, D. Umstadter, G. Mourou

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Abstract

The protons with the energy up to 10 MeV accelerated in the forward direction from the thin Mylar film by relativistically intense 10 TW, 400 fs laser pulse have been observed. When a deuterated polystyrene was deposited on the front surface of the film and a boron sample was placed behind the target the production of 10⁵ atoms of positron active isotope ¹¹C from the reaction ¹⁰B(d,n)¹¹C have been measured. The activation results suggest that ions (protons and deuterons) were accelerated from the front surface of the target.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	120-125
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4352
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.418790
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ultrafast Optics and Superstrong Laser Fields - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: Jun 26 2000 → Jun 30 2000

Keywords

Activation technique
High-energy ions
High-intensity laser
Radioisotope

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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