Acceleration Of Protons To Above 6 MeV Using H2O >Snow> Nanowire Targets
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2012-11
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Pomerantz, I.
Schleifer, E.
Nahum, E.
Eisenmann, S.
Botton, M.
Gordon, D.
Sprangel, P.
Zigler, A.
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A scheme is presented for using H2O >snow> nanowire targets for the generation of fast protons. This novel method may relax the requirements for very high laser intensities, thus reducing the size and cost of laser based ion acceleration system.
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I. Pomerantz, E. Schleifer, E. Nahum, S. Eisenmann, M. Botton, D. Gordon, P. Sprangel, and A. Zigler. AIP Conference Proceedings 1462, 159 (Nov., 2012); DOI: 10.1063/1.4736782