1. Laser-Driven Proton-Only Acceleration in a Multicomponent Near-Critical-Density Plasma
- Author
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Sakawa, Y., Ishihara, H., Ryazantsev, S. N., Alkhimova, M. A., Kumar, R., Kuramoto, O., Matsumoto, Y., Ota, M., Egashira, S., Nakagawa, Y., Minami, T., Sakai, K., Taguchi, T., Habara, H., Kuramitsu, Y., Morace, A., Abe, Y., Arikawa, Y., Fujioka, S., Kanasaki, M., Asai, T., Morita, T., Fukuda, Y., Pikuz, S., Pikuz, T., Ohira, Y., Doehl, L. N. K., Woolsey, N., and Sano, T.
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Physics - Plasma Physics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
An experimental investigation of collisionless shock ion acceleration is presented using a multicomponent plasma and a high-intensity picosecond duration laser pulse. Protons are the only accelerated ions when a near-critical-density plasma is driven by a laser with a modest normalized vector potential. The results of particle-in-cell simulations imply that collisionless shock may accelerate protons alone selectively, which can be an important tool for understanding the physics of inaccessible collisionless shocks in space and astrophysical plasma.
- Published
- 2024