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- A. Tramontana, G. Candiano, G.A.P. Cirrone, M. Costa, G. Cuttone, G. Gallo, R. Leanza, R. Manna, V. Marchese, G. Milluzzo, G. Petringa, D. Rizzo, F. Romano, S. Salamone, F. Schillaci, V. Scuderi
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
- M. Maggiore
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- V. Scuderi
ELI-BEAMS, Prague, Czech Republic
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Laser-target interaction represents a very promising field in several potential applications, from nuclear physics to medicine. On the other hand optically accelerated particle beams are characterized by some extreme features, often not suitable for several applications, as an high peak current, a poor shot-to-shot reproducibility and a wide energy and angular distribution. Therefore many efforts are currently ongoing for the development of specific beam transport devices in order to obtain controlled and reproducible output beams. In this framework, this work want to report about a transport beamline solution dedicated to laser-driven beams and made of two main sections: a quadrupole-focusing device and an energy selector system. A test beam-line consisting of prototypes has been realised at INFN-LNS (National Institute of Physics-South National Laboratories, Ct, I) and partially tested with conventional accelerated proton beams. Moreover, some of these prototypes have been already tested with laser-driven beams.\ Several simulations have been also performed using the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit, in order to best exploit the beamline potentiality. Preliminary simulations of a transported beamline to select 5 MeV and 24 MeV proton beams are here reported.
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