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HK: Fachverband Hadronen und Kerne
HK 67: Poster Session
HK 67.103: Poster
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 14:00–16:00, Audi-Max
A position-sensitive gaseous detector for studies of laser-induced particle acceleration — •Qi Zhang1,2, Markus Büscher1, Istvan Császár1,3, Md. Mosaddek Hossain1,4, Ralph Jung1,5, Pawel Kulessa1,6, Henner Ohm1, Gilbert Oswald1,3, Valeriy Serdyuk1,7, and Oswald Willi1,5 — 1FZ-Jülich — 2RWTH Aachen — 3FH Merseburg — 4FH Aachen-Jülich — 5U Düsseldorf — 6IFJ PAN, Krakow — 7JINR Dubna
The interaction of terawatt laser pulses with suitable gas or foil targets can yield bunches with up to 10^12 particles (e.g. protons) in the MeV region. For studies of these processes a position sensitive detector has been developed which is capable of detecting single charged particles as well as extremely intense bunches. The detector consists of an ionization chamber with a position-sensitive pad anode-plane and an additional proportional-chamber stage with a multi-wire anode plane. A Camac-based DAQ system is under preparation. First data taken using a laser-induced plasma as a particle source at the Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics at the University of Düsseldorf, are presented and discussed.
Supported by FFE of FZ-Jülich