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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80392-0
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- FRQNT [174726, Equipe 2016-PR-189974]
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2018-05772]
- Compute Canada [Job: pve-323-ac]
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- French National Research Agency (ANR) [ANR-10-IDEX-03-02]
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW)
- Laserlab Europe (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme) [654148]
This paper investigates the use of nanostructured target surfaces to enhance laser-driven proton acceleration, showing that nanowire structures can increase the maximum proton energy, temperature, and number. Experimental results and Particle-In-Cell simulations support the findings, with a focus on analyzing the impact of nanowire length, diameter, and gap size on the enhancement of the longitudinal accelerating electric field.
Laser-driven proton acceleration is a growing field of interest in the high-power laser community. One of the big challenges related to the most routinely used laser-driven ion acceleration mechanism, Target-Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA), is to enhance the laser-to-proton energy transfer such as to maximize the proton kinetic energy and number. A way to achieve this is using nanostructured target surfaces in the laser-matter interaction. In this paper, we show that nanowire structures can increase the maximum proton energy by a factor of two, triple the proton temperature and boost the proton numbers, in a campaign performed on the ultra-high contrast 10 TW laser at the Lund Laser Center (LLC). The optimal nanowire length, generating maximum proton energies around 6 MeV, is around 1-2 mu m. This nanowire length is sufficient to form well-defined highly-absorptive NW forests and short enough to minimize the energy loss of hot electrons going through the target bulk. Results are further supported by Particle-In-Cell simulations. Systematically analyzing nanowire length, diameter and gap size, we examine the underlying physical mechanisms that are provoking the enhancement of the longitudinal accelerating electric field. The parameter scan analysis shows that optimizing the spatial gap between the nanowires leads to larger enhancement than by the nanowire diameter and length, through increased electron heating.
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