PAC2013 - List of Authors (Nichols, R.M.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPSM12	A Ready-to-use Application of Laser-Plasma Accelerators using Gabor Lenses	1409
	J.K. Pozimski, M. Aslaninejad, N. Dover, Z. Najmudin, R.M. Nichols, P.A. Posocco Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
	Funding: R.M. Nichols was supported by EPSRC. A realistic particle distribution for a proton beam generated by laser-plasma interaction is required in order to simulate its transport through a Gabor lens system intended for use in radiobiology experiments. A stack of radiochromic films were exposed to a laser-driven proton beam of 25 MeV at the Vulcan Petawatt Experiment at Rutherford Lab and subsequently analysed to find the energy deposited per film and therefore the energy spectrum of the beam. Combined with the information on the radial profile of the dose in the films, it was possible to generate an idealised particle distribution. This distribution was sampled and used as a realistic proton source in a simulation through the Gabor lens system published at IPAC’13, scaled down to 4 MeV to fit the radiobiology experiment requirements.

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A Ready-to-use Application of Laser-Plasma Accelerators using Gabor Lenses

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J.K. Pozimski, M. Aslaninejad, N. Dover, Z. Najmudin, R.M. Nichols, P.A. Posocco
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom

Funding: R.M. Nichols was supported by EPSRC.
A realistic particle distribution for a proton beam generated by laser-plasma interaction is required in order to simulate its transport through a Gabor lens system intended for use in radiobiology experiments. A stack of radiochromic films were exposed to a laser-driven proton beam of 25 MeV at the Vulcan Petawatt Experiment at Rutherford Lab and subsequently analysed to find the energy deposited per film and therefore the energy spectrum of the beam. Combined with the information on the radial profile of the dose in the films, it was possible to generate an idealised particle distribution. This distribution was sampled and used as a realistic proton source in a simulation through the Gabor lens system published at IPAC’13, scaled down to 4 MeV to fit the radiobiology experiment requirements.