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. 2000 Oct 2;85(14):2945-8.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2945.

Intense high-energy proton beams from Petawatt-laser irradiation of solids

R A Snavely  1 , M H Key, S P Hatchett, T E Cowan, M Roth, T W Phillips, M A Stoyer, E A Henry, T C Sangster, M S Singh, S C Wilks, A MacKinnon, A Offenberger, D M Pennington, K Yasuike, A B Langdon, B F Lasinski, J Johnson, M D Perry, E M Campbell
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Intense high-energy proton beams from Petawatt-laser irradiation of solids

R A Snavely et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of thin solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity 3x10(20) W cm(-2). Up to 48 J ( 12%) of the laser energy is transferred to 2x10(13) protons of energy >10 MeV. The energy spectrum exhibits a sharp high-energy cutoff as high as 58 MeV on the axis of the beam which decreases in energy with increasing off axis angle. Proton induced nuclear processes have been observed and used to characterize the beam.

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