Speaker
Dr
Lorenzo Giuffrida
(ELI beamlines)
Description
The interaction of the laser system at LLC (Lund Laser Centre, 40 TW, 1020 W/cm2, 109 ns-contrast) with nano and micro structured thin (micrometer-scale) targets was systematically studied to control and to improve the main proton beam parameters.
Mylar foils covered with nano-spheres on their rear side (with respect to the laser-target absorption surface) allowed to modulate the spatial profile of the accelerated proton beams. Moreover the presence of the nano-spheres allowed to improve the proton beam spatial homogeneity.
Grating targets with different step dimensions influenced the divergence of the proton beam and drastically changed its shape through a sort of stretching effect.
Experimental results will be here shown and discussed with the support of 2D and 3D particle-in-cell simulations.
Primary author
Dr
Lorenzo Giuffrida
(ELI beamlines)
Co-authors
Dr
Alvise Bagolini
(Micro-Nano Facility, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Dr
Anders Persson
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Antonino Picciotto
(Micro-Nano Facility, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Dr
Arkady Gonoskov
(Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden)
Prof.
Claes-Göran Wahlström
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Daniele Margarone
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Georg Korn
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo
(LNS)
Giuseppe Cirrone
(LNS)
Dr
Henrik Ekerfelt
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Isabel Gallardo Gonzalez
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Jan Kaufman
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Jan Psikal
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Joel Magnusson
(Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden)
Dr
Kristoffer Svenson
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Malay Dalui
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Marzio Di Napoli
(Laboratory Nazionali del Sud, INFN, Catania, Italy)
Dr
Michele Crivellari
(Micro-Nano Facility, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Dr
Olle Lundh
(Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-2\1 00 Lund, Sweden)
Dr
Piotr Lutoslawski
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Tomas Lastivicka
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Tuomas Wiste
(Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines project, Prague, Czech Republic)
Dr
Valentina Scuderi
(LNS)
