The role of collisional ionization in heavy ion acceleration by high intensity laser pulses

We present here simulation results of the laser-driven acceleration of gold ions using the EPOCH code. Recently, an experiment reported the acceleration of gold ions up to 7 MeV/nucleon with a strong dependency of the charge-state distribution on target thickness and the detection of the highest cha...

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Autores principales: Afshari, M., Morris, S., Geulig, L. D., Chitgar, Z. M., Gibbon, P., Thirolf, P. G., Schreiber, J.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36309599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23148-2
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author Afshari, M.
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Schreiber, J.
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description We present here simulation results of the laser-driven acceleration of gold ions using the EPOCH code. Recently, an experiment reported the acceleration of gold ions up to 7 MeV/nucleon with a strong dependency of the charge-state distribution on target thickness and the detection of the highest charge states [Formula: see text] . Our simulations using a developmental branch of EPOCH (4.18-Ionization) show that collisional ionization is the most important cause of charge states beyond Z = 51 up to He-like Au.
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spelling pubmed-96178622022-10-31 The role of collisional ionization in heavy ion acceleration by high intensity laser pulses Afshari, M. Morris, S. Geulig, L. D. Chitgar, Z. M. Gibbon, P. Thirolf, P. G. Schreiber, J. Sci Rep Article We present here simulation results of the laser-driven acceleration of gold ions using the EPOCH code. Recently, an experiment reported the acceleration of gold ions up to 7 MeV/nucleon with a strong dependency of the charge-state distribution on target thickness and the detection of the highest charge states [Formula: see text] . Our simulations using a developmental branch of EPOCH (4.18-Ionization) show that collisional ionization is the most important cause of charge states beyond Z = 51 up to He-like Au. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9617862/ /pubmed/36309599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23148-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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