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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/045021
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- NSFC [10935002, 10734130, 60621063]
- National High-Tech ICF Committee of China
- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB815101, 2007CB815105]
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We present a scheme for proton acceleration from a moving double layer formed by an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with intensity 10(21)-10(23) W cm(-2) irradiated on a combination target. The target is composed of a thin overdense proton-rich foil located at the front followed by an underdense gas region behind with an effective Z/A ratio of the order of 1/3. When the areal density of the thin foil is small enough, the protons together with electrons in the thin overdense foil can be pre-accelerated under the laser irradiation. As the laser pulse passes through the thin foil and propagates in the underdense gas region, it excites high-amplitude electrostatic fields moving at a high speed, which appear like a moving double layer. The pre-accelerated protons can get trapped and accelerated in the moving double layer and tens of GeV quasi-monoenergetic proton beams are achieved, provided the laser intensity and plasma density are properly chosen, as demonstrated by one-dimensional (1D) and 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations.
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