The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca,Spain has recently started operation phase and the first user access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system(VEGA 2)already started at the beginning of 2018.In this paper we r...The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca,Spain has recently started operation phase and the first user access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system(VEGA 2)already started at the beginning of 2018.In this paper we report on two commissioning experiments recently performed on the VEGA 2 system in preparation for the user campaign.VEGA 2 system has been tested in different configurations depending on the focusing optics and targets used.One configuration(long focal length F=130 cm)is for underdense laser-matter interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto a low density gas-jet generating electron beams(via laser wake field acceleration mechanism)with maximum energy up to 500 MeV and an X-ray betatron source with a 10 keV critical energy.A second configuration(short focal length F= 40 cm)is for overdense laser-matter interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto a 5 μm thick Al target generating a proton beam with a maximum energy of 10 MeV and temperature of 2.5 MeV.In this paper we present preliminary experimental results.展开更多
基金Support from Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades through the PALMA Grant No. FIS2016-81056-RICTS Equipment Grant No. EQC2018005230-P+1 种基金from LaserLab Europe IV Grant No. 654148from Junta de Castilla y Leon Grant No. CLP087U16
文摘The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca,Spain has recently started operation phase and the first user access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system(VEGA 2)already started at the beginning of 2018.In this paper we report on two commissioning experiments recently performed on the VEGA 2 system in preparation for the user campaign.VEGA 2 system has been tested in different configurations depending on the focusing optics and targets used.One configuration(long focal length F=130 cm)is for underdense laser-matter interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto a low density gas-jet generating electron beams(via laser wake field acceleration mechanism)with maximum energy up to 500 MeV and an X-ray betatron source with a 10 keV critical energy.A second configuration(short focal length F= 40 cm)is for overdense laser-matter interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto a 5 μm thick Al target generating a proton beam with a maximum energy of 10 MeV and temperature of 2.5 MeV.In this paper we present preliminary experimental results.
