2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025)

How to Tame Laser-Driven Ions: From Record Energies to Applications at HZDR

18 Nov 2025, 09:50

20m

Aula "Migneco" (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare )

Oral Radiation Production

Speaker

Florian Kroll (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (DE))

Description

We present an overview of our facility and high-power laser infrastructure at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), highlighting recent progress in efficient laser-driven ion acceleration and the achievement of record proton energies. Using pulsed high-field magnets to capture and shape these proton beams, we can tailor their beam characteristics to match applications such as radiobiology, enabling new precision studies on laser-driven radiation effects.