Accelerating gradient improvement from hole-boring to light-sail stage using shape-tailored laser front

2017 
The accelerating gradient of a proton beam is a crucial factor for the stable radiation pressure acceleration, because quickly accelerating protons into the relativistic region may reduce the multidimensional instability grow to a certain extent. In this letter, a shape-tailored laser is designed to accelerate the protons in a controllable high accelerating gradient in theory. Finally, a proton beam in the gigaelectronvolt range with an energy spread of ∼2.4% is obtained in one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. With the future development of the high-intense laser, the ability to accelerate a high energy proton beam using a shape-tailored laser will be important for realistic proton applications, such as fast ignition for inertial confinement fusion, medical therapy, and proton imaging.
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