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Taghi Mohsenpour

Taghi Mohsenpour

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
Address: Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Sciences,University of Mazandaran , Babolsar, Iran
Phone: 01135302480

Research

Title
Effect of pre-plasma on the ion acceleration by intense ultra-short laser pulses
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Laser foil interaction; PIC simulation; pre-plasma
Year
2018
Journal LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS
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Researchers Parvin Varmazyar ، Saeed Mirzanejhad ، Taghi Mohsenpour

Abstract

In the interaction of short-laser pulses with a solid density target, pre-plasma can play a major role in ion acceleration processes. So far, complete analysis of pre-plasma effect on the ion acceleration by ultra-short laser pulses in the radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) regime has been unknown. Then the effect of pre-plasma on the ion acceleration efficiency is analyzed by numerical results of the particle-in-cell simulation in the RPA regime. It is shown that, for long-laser pulses (τp > 50 fs), the presence of pre-plasma makes a destructive effect on ion acceleration while it may have a contributing effect for short-laser pulses (τp < 50 fs). Therefore, the 35 fs (20 fs) laser pulse can accelerate ions up to 40 MeV (55 eV), which is almost two (three) times larger in energy rather than use of a 100 fs pulse with the same pre-plasma scale length.