The role of collisional ionization in heavy ion acceleration by high intensity laser pulses

Afshari, M.; Morris, S.; Geulig, L. D.; Chitgar, Z. M.; Gibbon, P.; Thirolf, P. G. und Schreiber, J. (29. October 2022): The role of collisional ionization in heavy ion acceleration by high intensity laser pulses. In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, No. 1

Abstract

We present here simulation results of the laser-driven acceleration of gold ions using the EPOCH code. Recently, an experiment reported the acceleration of gold ions up to 7 MeV/nucleon with a strong dependency of the charge-state distribution on target thickness and the detection of the highest charge states Z∼72 . Our simulations using a developmental branch of EPOCH (4.18-Ionization) show that collisional ionization is the most important cause of charge states beyond Z = 51 up to He-like Au.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISSN: 2045-2322
• Language: English
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 491502892