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Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators

This article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is g...

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Autores principales: Salgado-López, Carlos, Apiñaniz, Jon Imanol, Henares, José Luis, Pérez-Hernández, José Antonio, de Luis, Diego, Volpe, Luca, Gatti, Giancarlo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9104512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35590929
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22093239
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author Salgado-López, Carlos
Apiñaniz, Jon Imanol
Henares, José Luis
Pérez-Hernández, José Antonio
de Luis, Diego
Volpe, Luca
Gatti, Giancarlo
author_facet Salgado-López, Carlos
Apiñaniz, Jon Imanol
Henares, José Luis
Pérez-Hernández, José Antonio
de Luis, Diego
Volpe, Luca
Gatti, Giancarlo
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description This article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is guaranteed by the use of a microchannel plate (MCP) as active particle detector. The angular resolving power, which is achieved due to an array of entrance pinholes, can be simply adjusted by modifying the geometry of the experiment and/or the pinhole array itself. The analysis procedure allows for different ion traces to cross on the detector plane, which greatly enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the detector. A full characterization of the TP magnetic field is implemented into a relativistic code developed for the trajectory calculation of each pinhole beamlet. We describe the first test of the spectrometer at the [Formula: see text] VEGA 3 laser facility at CLPU, Salamanca (Spain), where up to [Formula: see text] protons and carbon ions from a [Formula: see text] laser-irradiated Al foil are detected.
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spelling pubmed-91045122022-05-14 Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators Salgado-López, Carlos Apiñaniz, Jon Imanol Henares, José Luis Pérez-Hernández, José Antonio de Luis, Diego Volpe, Luca Gatti, Giancarlo Sensors (Basel) Article This article reports the development, construction, and experimental test of an angle-resolved Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer for laser-accelerated multi-MeV ion beams in order to distinguish between ionic species with different charge-to-mass ratio. High repetition rate (HHR) compatibility is guaranteed by the use of a microchannel plate (MCP) as active particle detector. The angular resolving power, which is achieved due to an array of entrance pinholes, can be simply adjusted by modifying the geometry of the experiment and/or the pinhole array itself. The analysis procedure allows for different ion traces to cross on the detector plane, which greatly enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the detector. A full characterization of the TP magnetic field is implemented into a relativistic code developed for the trajectory calculation of each pinhole beamlet. We describe the first test of the spectrometer at the [Formula: see text] VEGA 3 laser facility at CLPU, Salamanca (Spain), where up to [Formula: see text] protons and carbon ions from a [Formula: see text] laser-irradiated Al foil are detected. MDPI 2022-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9104512/ /pubmed/35590929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22093239 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators
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title_short Angular-Resolved Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators
title_sort angular-resolved thomson parabola spectrometer for laser-driven ion accelerators
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9104512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35590929
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22093239
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