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View article: Laser-initiated <i>p</i>–11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rate laser facilities
Laser-initiated <i>p</i>–11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rate laser facilities Open
Driving of the nuclear fusion reaction p + 11B → 3α + 8.7 MeV under laboratory conditions by interaction between high-power laser pulses and matter has become a popular field of research, owing to its numerous potential applications: as an…
View article: Experimental and computational evaluation of alpha particle production from laser-driven proton–boron nuclear reaction in hole-boring scheme
Experimental and computational evaluation of alpha particle production from laser-driven proton–boron nuclear reaction in hole-boring scheme Open
The majority of studies on laser-driven proton–boron nuclear reaction is based on the measurement of α-particles with solid-state nuclear tracks detector (Cr39). However, Cr39's interpretation is difficult due to the presence of several ot…
View article: Generation of radioisotopes for medical applications using high-repetition, high-intensity lasers
Generation of radioisotopes for medical applications using high-repetition, high-intensity lasers Open
We used the PW high-repetition laser facility VEGA-3 at Centro de Láseres Pulsados in Salamanca, with the goal of studying the generation of radioisotopes using laser-driven proton beams. Various types of targets have been irradiated, incl…
View article: Design of an active Thomson parabola for the detection of ions accelerated by laser: numerical simulations and characterization of different solutions
Design of an active Thomson parabola for the detection of ions accelerated by laser: numerical simulations and characterization of different solutions Open
This paper presents the development of a modulable and active Thomson parabola ion spectrometer designed to measure the energy spectra of multi-MeV ion species generated in laser–plasma interactions. The spectrometer features a flexible an…
View article: Laser initiated p-11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rates laser facilities
Laser initiated p-11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rates laser facilities Open
Driving the nuclear fusion reaction p+11B -> 3 alpha + 8.7 MeV in laboratory conditions, by interaction between high-power laser pulses and matter, has become a popular field of research, due to numerous applications that it can potentiall…
View article: Laser-driven ion and electron acceleration from near-critical density gas targets: Towards high-repetition rate operation in the 1 PW, sub-100 fs laser interaction regime
Laser-driven ion and electron acceleration from near-critical density gas targets: Towards high-repetition rate operation in the 1 PW, sub-100 fs laser interaction regime Open
Ion acceleration from gaseous targets driven by relativistic-intensity lasers was demonstrated as early as the late 1990s, yet most of the experiments conducted to date have involved picosecond-duration, Nd:glass lasers operating at low re…
View article: Radioisotope production using lasers: From basic science to applications
Radioisotope production using lasers: From basic science to applications Open
The discovery of chirped pulse amplification has led to great improvements in laser technology, enabling energetic laser beams to be compressed to pulse durations of tens of femtoseconds and focused to a few micrometers. Protons with energ…
View article: Radioisotopes production using lasers: from basic science to applications
Radioisotopes production using lasers: from basic science to applications Open
Laser technologies improved after the understanding of the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) which allows energetic laser beams to be compressed to tens of femtosecond (fs) pulse durations and focused to few $μ$m. Protons of tens of MeV ca…
View article: Laser-driven ion and electron acceleration from near-critical density gas targets: towards high-repetition rate operation in the 1 PW, sub-100 fs laser interaction regime
Laser-driven ion and electron acceleration from near-critical density gas targets: towards high-repetition rate operation in the 1 PW, sub-100 fs laser interaction regime Open
Ion acceleration from gaseous targets driven by relativistic-intensity lasers was demonstrated as early as the late 90s, yet most of the experiments conducted to date have involved picosecond-duration, Nd:glass lasers operating at low repe…
View article: Imaging electron angular distributions to assess a full-power petawatt-class laser focus
Imaging electron angular distributions to assess a full-power petawatt-class laser focus Open
Here we present a technique to assess the focal volume of petawatt-class lasers at full power. Our approach exploits quantitative measurement of the angular distribution of electrons born in the focus via ionization of rarefied gas, which …
View article: Toward direct spatial and intensity characterization of ultra-high-intensity laser pulses using ponderomotive scattering of free electrons
Toward direct spatial and intensity characterization of ultra-high-intensity laser pulses using ponderomotive scattering of free electrons Open
Spatial distributions of electrons ionized and scattered from ultra-low-pressure gases are proposed and experimentally demonstrated as a method to directly measure the intensity of an ultra-high-intensity laser pulse. Analytic models relat…
View article: Towards direct spatial and intensity characterization of ultra-high intensity laser pulses using ponderomotive scattering of free electrons
Towards direct spatial and intensity characterization of ultra-high intensity laser pulses using ponderomotive scattering of free electrons Open
Spatial distributions of electrons ionized and scattered from ultra-low pressure gases are proposed and experimentally demonstrated as a method to directly measure the intensity of an ultra-high intensity laser pulse. Analytic models relat…
View article: Imaging electron angular distributions to assess a full-power petawatt-class laser focus
Imaging electron angular distributions to assess a full-power petawatt-class laser focus Open
We present a novel technique to assess the focal volume of petawatt-class lasers at full power. Our approach exploits quantitative measurement of the angular distribution of electrons born in the focus via ionization of rarefied gas, which…
View article: Demonstration of efficient relativistic electron acceleration by surface plasmonics with sequential target processing using high repetition lasers
Demonstration of efficient relativistic electron acceleration by surface plasmonics with sequential target processing using high repetition lasers Open
For high repetition ultrahigh-intensity laser system, automatic alignment of structured target is key to achieving consistent particle acceleration and plasma heating. In this work, we demonstrate efficient electron acceleration with two s…
View article: Proton stopping measurements at low velocity in warm dense carbon
Proton stopping measurements at low velocity in warm dense carbon Open
Ion stopping in warm dense matter is a process of fundamental importance for the understanding of the properties of dense plasmas, the realization and the interpretation of experiments involving ion-beam-heated warm dense matter samples, a…
View article: Integrated quantitative PIXE analysis and EDX spectroscopy using a laser-driven particle source
Integrated quantitative PIXE analysis and EDX spectroscopy using a laser-driven particle source Open
A laser-driven particle source is exploited for the elemental and stratigraphic characterization of a nonhomogeneous sample.
View article: Laser-driven proton acceleration and detection at high repetition rate
Laser-driven proton acceleration and detection at high repetition rate Open
[ES]Durante m?s de dos d?cadas, la aceleraci?n de protones impulsada por l?ser ha sido un campo importante de investigaci?n con un inter?s potencial para varias aplicaciones en diferentes campos de la f?sica, la qu?mica y la ciencia de los…
View article: Ion acceleration by an ultrashort laser pulse interacting with a near-critical-density gas jet
Ion acceleration by an ultrashort laser pulse interacting with a near-critical-density gas jet Open
We demonstrate laser-driven Helium ion acceleration with cut-off energies above 25 MeV and peaked ion number above $10^8$ /MeV for 22(2) MeV projectiles from near-critical density gas jet targets. We employed shock gas jet nozzles at the h…
View article: Integrated quantitative PIXE analysis and EDX spectroscopy using a laser-driven particle source
Integrated quantitative PIXE analysis and EDX spectroscopy using a laser-driven particle source Open
Among the existing elemental characterization techniques, Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy are two of the most widely used in different scientific and technological fields. Here we prese…
View article: Innovative education and training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser matter interactions and high energy density physics: experimental diagnostics and simulations – CORRIGENDUM
Innovative education and training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser matter interactions and high energy density physics: experimental diagnostics and simulations – CORRIGENDUM Open
Innovative education and training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser matter interactions and high energy density physics: experimental diagnostics and simulations – CORRIGENDUM - Volume 8
View article: Innovative education and training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser matter interactions and high energy density physics: experimental diagnostics and simulations
Innovative education and training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser matter interactions and high energy density physics: experimental diagnostics and simulations Open
The second and final year of the Erasmus Plus programme ‘Innovative Education and Training in high power laser plasmas’, otherwise known as PowerLaPs, is described. The PowerLaPs programme employs an innovative paradigm in that it is a mul…
View article: A 2D scintillator based proton detector for HRR experiments
A 2D scintillator based proton detector for HRR experiments Open
We present a scintillator based detector able to measure both spatial and energy information at High repetition rate (HRR) with a relatively simple design. It has been built at the Center of Pulsed Laser (CLPU) in Salamanca and tested in t…
View article: Generation of high energy laser-driven electron and proton sources with the 200 TW system VEGA 2 at the Centro de Laseres Pulsados
Generation of high energy laser-driven electron and proton sources with the 200 TW system VEGA 2 at the Centro de Laseres Pulsados Open
The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca, Spain has recently started operation phase and the first user access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system (VEGA 2) already started at the beginning of 2018. In this paper we report on two commi…
View article: A 2D scintillator-based proton detector for high repetition rate experiments
A 2D scintillator-based proton detector for high repetition rate experiments Open
We present a scintillator-based detector able to measure the proton energy and the spatial distribution with a relatively simple design. It has been designed and built at the Spanish Center for Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) in Salamanca and tested …
View article: Generation of high energy laser-driven electron and proton sources with the 200 TW system VEGA 2 at the Centro de Laseres Pulsados
Generation of high energy laser-driven electron and proton sources with the 200 TW system VEGA 2 at the Centro de Laseres Pulsados Open
The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca Spain has recently started operation phase and the first User access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system (VEGA 2) already started at the beginning of 2018. In this paper we report on two commis…