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中国物理学会期刊

基于多激光束驱动准单能高能质子束模拟研究

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.72.20230313

Simulation study of quasi-monoenergetic high-energy proton beam based on multiple laser beams driving

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.72.20230313
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  • 受激光强度制约, 单束激光驱动下质子束能量难以提升. 本文提出一种多束超短强激光掠入射微带靶两侧驱动质子加速新方法. 两束激光驱动设置下, 可获得能散度约3%、能量约165 MeV的质子束. 二维粒子模拟显示, 激光在固体靶两侧提取大量准直性高能电子电荷并注入靶后方, 在靶后方自行建立纵向聚束场驱动质子加速和聚束, 形成准单能高能质子束. 研究还表明, 利用四束超短强激光掠入射微带靶两侧, 可获得能散度约2%、能量约250 MeV的质子束. 多激光束驱动质子加速机制为质子束能量提升提供了新的思路, 准单能高能质子束有望在医学治疗领域得到应用.

     

    High-energy proton beams have extensive and important applications. Traditional proton accelerators are bulky and costly. The high-power laser pulse technology provides a new proton acceleration scheme based on the interaction between laser and plasma, and has the advantage of miniaturization. Furthermore, comparing with traditional proton accelerators, the proton acceleration gradient by high-power laser pulses can be increased by three orders of magnitude. The proton beams with high brightness, narrow pulse width, and good directionality can be generated in theory within a very small effective size, and they are suitable for fields such as nuclear physics and particle physics, ion beam fast ignition, medical treatment, and proton beam detection. In order to realize laser proton acceleration, a great many of researches of different target configurations and acceleration mechanisms have been reported on proton acceleration driven by ultrashort and high-power lasers. However, owing to the limitation of laser intensity, the energy of proton beam driven by a single-beam laser is difficult to improve to meet the needs of medical applications. In this paper, a new method of driving proton acceleration by multiple ultrashort high-power lasers with grazing incidence on both sides of the microstrip target is proposed. A proton beam with an energy divergence of about 3% and energy of about 165 MeV can be obtained by using the two-beam driving setting. The results of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation show that a large number of collimated high-energy electron charges are extracted from both sides of the solid target by laser and injected into the back of the target. A longitudinal bunching field is established on the back of the target, which drives protons to accelerate and bunch to form a quasi-monoenergetic high-energy proton beam. The research also shows that the proton beam with an energy divergence of about 2% and energy of about 250 MeV can be obtained by using four grazing ultrashort high-power lasers on both sides of the microstrip target. The mechanism of multi-laser beams driving proton acceleration provides a new idea for the energy enhancement of the proton beam, and the quasi-monoenergetic high-energy proton beam is expected to be applied to the field of medical treatment.

     

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