MC3: Novel Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
A17: High Intensity Accelerators
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WEPOST021 Theoretical Study of Laser Energy Absorption Towards Energetic Proton and Electron Sources 1737
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  • I.M. Vladisavlevici, E. d’Humières
    CELIA, Talence, France
  • D. Vizman
    West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
 
  Funding: This work was supported by Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research PN 75/2018, Agence Nationale de la Recherche project ANR-17-CE30-0026-Pinnacle, WUT - JINR collaboration project 05-6-1119-2014/2023 (2/2019; 86/2020; 103/2021) and Erasmus+ Student grant (2018/2019; 2019/2020; 2020/2021).
Our main goal is to describe and model the energy transfer from laser to particles, from the transparent to less transparent regime of laser-plasma interaction in the ultra-high intensity regime, and using the results obtained to optimize laser ion acceleration. We investigate the case of an ultra high intensity (1022 W/cm2) ultra short (20 fs) laser pulse interacting with a near-critical density plasma made of electrons and protons of density 5 nc (where nc = 1.1·1021 cm-3 is the critical density for a laser wavelength of 1 µm). Through 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we study the optimal target thickness for the maximum conversion efficiency of the laser energy to particles. Theoretical modelling of the predominant laser-plasma interaction mechanisms predicts the particle energy and conversion efficiency optimization. Our studies led to an optimization of the target thickness for maximizing electron and proton acceleration.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST021  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 12 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 08 July 2022
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