Characterizing exact energy density distributions for laser-accelerated ion bunches in a medium is challenging due to very high beam intensities and the electro-magnetic pulse emitted in the laser-plasma interaction.I...Characterizing exact energy density distributions for laser-accelerated ion bunches in a medium is challenging due to very high beam intensities and the electro-magnetic pulse emitted in the laser-plasma interaction.Ion-bunch energy acoustic tracing allows for reconstructing the spatial energy density from the ionoacoustic wave generated upon impact in water.We have extended this approach to tracing ionoacoustic modulations of broad energy distributions by introducing thin foils in the water reservoir to shape the acoustic waves at distinct points along the depth-dose curve.Here,we present first simulation studies of this new detector and reconstruction approach,which provides an online read-out of the deposited energy with depth within the centimeter range behind the ion source of state-of-the-art laser-plasma-based accelerators.展开更多
基金the support of the BMBFFSP APPA collaboration project 05P18WMFA1 and 05P21WMFA1the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Research Training Group GRK 2274+1 种基金the DFG project 403225886the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
文摘Characterizing exact energy density distributions for laser-accelerated ion bunches in a medium is challenging due to very high beam intensities and the electro-magnetic pulse emitted in the laser-plasma interaction.Ion-bunch energy acoustic tracing allows for reconstructing the spatial energy density from the ionoacoustic wave generated upon impact in water.We have extended this approach to tracing ionoacoustic modulations of broad energy distributions by introducing thin foils in the water reservoir to shape the acoustic waves at distinct points along the depth-dose curve.Here,we present first simulation studies of this new detector and reconstruction approach,which provides an online read-out of the deposited energy with depth within the centimeter range behind the ion source of state-of-the-art laser-plasma-based accelerators.
