相对论飞秒激光辐照表面调制靶产生高定向性正电子束

激光驱动的正电子源具有高产额、短脉宽、高能量的优点。采用粒子模拟和蒙特卡罗模拟相结合的方法,对相对论飞秒激光与表面具有微米丝阵结构的调制靶相互作用产生正电子束的过程进行了全三维的模拟研究。结果表明,在激光能量约3.2 J、脉宽约为40 fs的情况下,可得到产额为1011量级、最大能量达120 MeV的超热电子束,其轰击高Z转换靶可达到产额为109量级、截止能量约50 MeV的正电子,且正电子的发散角仅为4.92°。相比于平板靶,表面调制靶的使用可以提高正电子的产额、能量和定向性。     

Simulation of the Quasi-Monoenergetic Protons Generation by Parallel Laser Pulses Interaction with Foils

A new scheme of radiation pressure acceleration for generating high-quality protons by using two overlappingparallel laser pulses is proposed. Particle-in-cell simulation shows that the overlapping of two pulses with identical Caussian profiles in space and trapezoidal profiles in the time domain can result in a composite light pulse with a spatial profile suitable for stable acceleration of protons to high energies. At～2.46 × 10^21 W/cm^2 intensity of the combination light pulse, a quasi-monoenergetic proton beam with peak energy ,～200 MeV/nucleon, energy spread 〈15%, and divergency angle 〈4° is obtained, which is appropriate for tumor therapy. The proton beam quality can be controlled by adjusting the incidence points of two laser pulses.