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@article{Krygier:2015:10.1063/1.4919618,
author = {Krygier, AG and Morrison, JT and Kar, S and Ahmed, H and Alejo, A and Clarke, R and Fuchs, J and Green, A and Jung, D and Kleinschmidt, A and Najmudin, Z and Nakamura, H and Norreys, P and Notley, M and Oliver, M and Roth, M and Vassura, L and Zepf, M and Borghesi, M and Freeman, RR},
doi = {10.1063/1.4919618},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
title = {Selective deuterium ion acceleration using the Vulcan petawatt laser},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4919618},
volume = {22},
year = {2015}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - We report on the successful demonstration of selective acceleration of deuterium ions by targetnormalsheath acceleration (TNSA) with a high-energy petawatt laser. TNSA typically produces amulti-species ion beam that originates from the intrinsic hydrocarbon and water vapor contaminantson the target surface. Using the method first developed by Morrison et al. [Phys. Plasmas 19,030707 (2012)], an ion beam with >99% deuterium ions and peak energy 14 MeV/nucleon is producedwith a 200 J, 700 fs, >1020W=cm2 laser pulse by cryogenically freezing heavy water (D2O)vapor onto the rear surface of the target prior to the shot. Within the range of our detectors(0!–8.5!), we find laser-to-deuterium-ion energy conversion efficiency of 4.3% above 0.7 MeV/nucleon while a conservative estimate of the total beam gives a conversion efficiency of 9.4%.
AU - Krygier,AG
AU - Morrison,JT
AU - Kar,S
AU - Ahmed,H
AU - Alejo,A
AU - Clarke,R
AU - Fuchs,J
AU - Green,A
AU - Jung,D
AU - Kleinschmidt,A
AU - Najmudin,Z
AU - Nakamura,H
AU - Norreys,P
AU - Notley,M
AU - Oliver,M
AU - Roth,M
AU - Vassura,L
AU - Zepf,M
AU - Borghesi,M
AU - Freeman,RR
DO - 10.1063/1.4919618
PY - 2015///
SN - 1089-7674
TI - Selective deuterium ion acceleration using the Vulcan petawatt laser
T2 - Physics of Plasmas
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4919618
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24619
VL - 22
ER -

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