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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 21: Interaction with Strong or Short Laser Pulses II
A 21.5: Talk
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 17:45–18:00, VMP 6 HS-C
High-quality laser-accelerated ion beams for medical applications — •Zoltan Harman1, Yousef I. Salamin1,2, and Christoph H. Keitel1 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg — 2American University of Sharjah, POB 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Cancer radiation therapy requires accelerated ion beams of high energy sharpness and a narrow spatial profile. As shown recently [1], linearly and radially polarized, tightly focused and thus extremely strong laser beams should permit the direct acceleration of light atomic nuclei up to energies that may offer the potentiality for medical applications. Radially polarized beams have better emittance than their linearly polarized counterparts. We put forward the direct laser acceleration of ions, once the refocusing of ion beams by external fields is solved or radially polarized laser pulses of sufficient power can be generated.
[1] Y. I. Salamin, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155004 (2008)