Ms
Arianna Formenti
(Politecnico di Milano)
9/27/17, 11:00 AM
Invited Plenary Talk
talk
Laser-plasma ion sources have been experimentally and theoretically investigated for a long time now. Major improvements in the acceleration process, i.e. increase of ion maximum energy and total charge, can be obtained using advanced targets, without raising laser requirements.
In our contribution we present recent experimental and numerical results of laser-driven ion acceleration with an...
Dr
Martin King
(University of Strathclyde)
9/27/17, 11:30 AM
Invited Plenary Talk
talk
The ability to control the collective plasma behaviour during the interaction of intense laser light is fundamental to the development of relativistic optics as well as laser-driven particle and radiation sources. Here we show that for an ultra-thin (nanometre-scale) foil target interacting with an intense laser pulse, the resultant accelerated electron and proton beam structures can be...
Dr
Timon Mehrling
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
9/27/17, 12:00 PM
Invited Plenary Talk
talk
The hose instability is a long standing challenge for plasma-wakefield accelerators (PWFAs). It is seeded by initial transverse asymmetries of the beam or plasma spatial or momentum distributions.
According to current models, the beam centroid displacement is amplified exponentially during the beam propagation in the plasma, resulting in an unstable acceleration process or in beam-breakup....
