Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

D. Del Sorbo; D. R. Blackman; R. Capdessus; K. Small; C. Slade-Lowther; M. J. Duff; A. P. L. Robinson; P. McKenna; Z. -M. Sheng; J. Pasley; C. P. Ridgers; Wen Luo

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aaae61

Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

D. Del Sorbo, D. R. Blackman, R. Capdessus, K. Small, C. Slade-Lowther, M. J. Duff, A. P. L. Robinson, P. McKenna, Z. -M. Sheng, J. Pasley, C. P. Ridgers, Wen Luo

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Abstract

The radiation pressure of next generation ultra-high intensity ($>10^{23}$ W/cm$^{2}$) lasers could efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrodynamic effects play an important role in the interaction of these laser pulses with matter. Here we show that these effects may lead to the production of an extremely dense ($\sim10^{24}$ cm$^{-3}$) pair-plasma which absorbs the laser pulse consequently reducing the accelerated ion energy and energy conversion efficiency by up to 30-50\% \

Original language	English
Article number	033014
Number of pages	9
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaae61
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2018

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physics.plasm-ph
intense fields
light sail
laser-solid
hole boring
quantum-electrodynamic plasmas
radiation pressure ion acceleration

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Sorbo, D. D., Blackman, D. R., Capdessus, R., Small, K., Slade-Lowther, C., Duff, M. J., Robinson, A. P. L., McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. .-M., Pasley, J., Ridgers, C. P., & Luo, W. (2018). Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions. New Journal of Physics, 20(3), Article 033014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaae61

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Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

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