Acceleration of spin-polarized proton beams via two parallel laser pulses

Autor: Lars Reichwein, Alexander Pukhov, Markus Büscher
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol 25, Iss 8, p 081001 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2469-9888
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.25.081001
Popis: We present a setup for highly polarized proton beams using two parallel propagating laser pulses that have a carrier envelope phase difference of π. This mechanism is examined utilizing particle-in-cell simulations and compared to a single-pulse setup commonly used for magnetic vortex acceleration. We find that the use of the dual-pulse setup allows for peak energies of 124 MeV and good angular spread for two pulses with normalized laser vector potential a_{0}=100. Compared to a single pulse, we further observe higher polarization of the accelerated bunch.
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