Plasma-based accelerators use the strong electromagnetic fields that can be supported by
plasmas to accelerate charged particles to high energies. Accelerating field structures in …

Laser-driven ion sources are a rapidly developing technology producing high energy, high
peak current beams. Their suitability for applications, such as compact medical accelerators …

The acceleration of super-heavy ions (SHIs, mass number of about 200) from plasmas
driven by ultrashort (tens of femtoseconds) laser pulses is a challenging topic awaiting a …

Laser-driven ion accelerators can deliver high-energy, high-peak current beams and are
thus attracting attention as a compact alternative to conventional accelerators. However …

We described the output performance and temporal quality enhancement of the J-KAREN-P
petawatt laser facility. After wavefront correction using a deformable mirror, focusing with an …

Interaction of intense lasers with nm thick targets provides an attractive regime for the
acceleration of ions of all types. Acceleration of heavy ions however is undermined in the …

For high-intensity laser-solid interactions, the absolute density and surface density gradients
of the target at the arrival of the ultrarelativistic laser peak are critical parameters. Accurate …

Due to the non-linear nature of relativistic laser induced plasma processes, the development
of laser-plasma accelerators requires precise numerical modeling. Especially high intensity …

Abstract Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are a widely-used tool to model kinetics-dominated
plasmas in ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions (dimensionless vectorpotential a 0> 1) …

In this work, we investigate the application of the plasma shutters for heavy ion acceleration
driven by a high-intensity laser pulse. We use particle-in-cell and hydrodynamic simulations …