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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep42666
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFBTR18, EUCARD-2]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11375265, 11474360, 11475259, 11622547, 11675264]
- Science Challenge Project [JCKY2016212A505]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CBA01504]
- Research Project of NUDT [JQ14-02-02]
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Efficient energy boost of the laser-accelerated ions is critical for their applications in biomedical and hadron research. Achiev-able energies continue to rise, with currently highest energies, allowing access to medical therapy energy windows. Here, a new regime of simultaneous acceleration of -100 MeV protons and multi-100 MeV carbon-ions from plasma micro-channel targets is proposed by using a similar to 10(20) W/cm(2) modest intensity laser pulse. It is found that two trains of overdense electron bunches are dragged out from the micro-channel and effectively accelerated by the longitudinal electric-field excited in the plasma channel. With the optimized channel size, these superponderomotive energetic electrons can be focused on the front surface of the attached plastic substrate. The much intense sheath electric-field is formed on the rear side, leading to up to similar to 10-fold ionic energy increase compared to the simple planar geometry. The analytical prediction of the optimal channel size and ion maximum energies is derived, which shows good agreement with the particle-in-cell simulations.
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