IPAC2013 - List of Authors (Huang, Y.S.)

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TUPEA016	Relativistic Theory for Laser-ion Acceleration	1193
	Y.S. Huang, Y.J. Shi, X.Z. Tang, N.Y. Wang CIAE, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: The Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research (973 Program) under contract No. 2011CB808104 and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation under contract No. 11105233. An analytical relativistic model is proposed to describe the relativistic ion acceleration in the interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with thin-foil plasmas. It is found that there is a critical value of the ion momentum to make sure that the ions are trapped by the light sail and accelerated in the radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) region. If the initial ion momentum is smaller than the critical value, that is in the classical case of RPA, the potential has a deep well and traps the ions to be accelerated. There is a new ion acceleration region different from RPA, called ultra-relativistic acceleration, if the ion momentum exceeds the critical value. In this case, ions will experience a potential downhill. The dependence of the ion momentum and the self-similar variable at the ion front on the acceleration time has been obtained. The critical conditions of the laser and plasma parameters which identify the two acceleration modes have been achieved. No matter RPA or ultra-relativistic acceleration, the potential difference is a constant, which dedicates the maximum ion energy.

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Relativistic Theory for Laser-ion Acceleration

1193

Y.S. Huang, Y.J. Shi, X.Z. Tang, N.Y. Wang
CIAE, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: The Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research (973 Program) under contract No. 2011CB808104 and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation under contract No. 11105233.
An analytical relativistic model is proposed to describe the relativistic ion acceleration in the interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with thin-foil plasmas. It is found that there is a critical value of the ion momentum to make sure that the ions are trapped by the light sail and accelerated in the radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) region. If the initial ion momentum is smaller than the critical value, that is in the classical case of RPA, the potential has a deep well and traps the ions to be accelerated. There is a new ion acceleration region different from RPA, called ultra-relativistic acceleration, if the ion momentum exceeds the critical value. In this case, ions will experience a potential downhill. The dependence of the ion momentum and the self-similar variable at the ion front on the acceleration time has been obtained. The critical conditions of the laser and plasma parameters which identify the two acceleration modes have been achieved. No matter RPA or ultra-relativistic acceleration, the potential difference is a constant, which dedicates the maximum ion energy.