Stuttgart 2012 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik
P 17: Laserplasmen und innovative Anwendungen
P 17.2: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 15. März 2012, 10:45–11:00, V55.01
LIGHT: Towards a laser-based accelerator — •Simon Busold1, Oliver Deppert1, Christian Brabetz3, Trevor Burris-Mog4, Martin Joost4, Abel Blazevic2, Bernhard Zielbauer2,5, Vincent Bagnoud2, Oliver Kester2,3, Tom Cowan4, and Markus Roth1 — 1Technical University of Darmstadt, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Schlossgartenstraße 9, 64289 Darmstadt — 2GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt — 3Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Institute for Applied Physics, Max von Laue Straße 1, 60438 Frankfurt — 4Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden — 5Helmholtz Institute Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena
Proton acceleration by ultrashort, high intensity laser pulses has been a fast growing field of research during the last decade. The most intensely investigated accleration mechanism is the TNSA mechanism (Target Normal Sheath Acceleration), providing protons in the multi-MeV-range.
For many possible applications, however, the full energy spread and large beam divergence are major draw-backs. Therefore, a pulsed high-field solenoid was used for collimation and energy-selection and is now integrated in a full test stand for a laser-based accelerator at GSI Helmholtz Center, Darmstadt, namely the LIGHT project (Laser Ion Generation, Handling and Transport), which is a collaboration between TU Darmstadt, GSI, HZDR, JWGU Frankfurt and HI Jena.
An overview of the new infrastructure, the goals of the LIGHT project and first experimental results are presented.