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Physical mechanisms leading to high currents of highly charged ions in laser-driven ion sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Helmut Haseroth  and
Heinrich Hora
Helmut Haseroth
Affiliation:
CERN PS, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Heinrich Hora
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia, and Anwenderzentrum, Institute of Technology, Hermann-Geib-Str. 18, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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Abstract

Heavy ion sources for the big accelerators, for example, the LHC, require considerably more ions per pulse during a short time than the best developed classical ion source, the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) provides; thus an alternative ion source is needed. This can be expected from laser-produced plasmas, where dramatically new types of ion generation have been observed. Experiments with rather modest lasers have confirmed operation with one million pulses of 1 Hz, and 1011 C4+ ions per pulse reached 2 GeV/u in the Dubna synchrotron. We review here the complexities of laser-plasma interactions to underline the unique and extraordinary possibilities that the laser ion source offers. The complexities are elaborated with respect to keV and MeV ion generation, nonlinear (ponderomotive) forces, self-focusing, resonances and “hot” electrons, parametric instabilities, double-layer effects, and the few ps stochastic pulsation (stuttering). Recent experiments with the laser ion source have been analyzed to distinguish between the ps and ns interaction, and it was discovered that one mechanism of highly charged ion generation is the electron impact ionization (EII) mechanism, similar to the ECR, but with so much higher plasma densities that the required very large number of ions per pulse are produced.

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 393 - 438
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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