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TY - CONF AU - Ji, Q. AU - Bulanov, S.S. AU - Esarey, E. AU - Leemans, W. AU - Schenkel, T. AU - Steinke, S. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Kim, Dong Eon ED - Kim, Kyung Sook ED - Ko, In Soo ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Design of a Compact ion Beam Transport System for the BELLA Ion Accelerator J2 - Proc. of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea, May 8-13, 2016 C1 - Busan, Korea T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 7 LA - english AB - The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center hosts a Ti:sapphire CPA laser providing laser pulses at petawatt-level peak power with a repetition rate of 1 Hz. High irradiances of 10²² W/cm² can be achieved with a short focal length beamline when the laser is focused to a spot of w₀ < 5 um. Under this condition, theoretical and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations have shown that protons and helium ions at energies up to several hundred MeV/u can be expected from the interaction between BELLA laser pulses and different targets. High ion energies*, low energy spread with high controllability and stability, a new generation of ion accelerators using high performance laser-driven ion beam has numerous potential applications such as injectors for conventional accelerators, radiation therapy, as well as high energy density laboratory physics and material science studies. We will present a preliminary ion optics design to collect, transport, and focus the ions generated from the laser-driven ion accelerator, and beam dynamics results using the ion distribution from the PIC simulation. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3391 EP - 3393 KW - ion KW - laser KW - target KW - quadrupole KW - proton DA - 2016/06 PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-95450-147-2 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-THPMR004 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2016/papers/thpmr004.pdf ER -