Conveners
Secondary Beam Production II and LC Sources
- Dan Stutman (ELI-NP)
The different types of energetic particle sources generated by PetaWatt (PW) lasers can serve for various applications in many research fields, including nuclear physics. In this presentation, we will report on recent numerical and experimental results on particle acceleration as well as neutron generation with the (~ 0.3 kJ, 0.6-1 ps, 5×10$^{18}$ Wcm$^{-2}$) PETAL and (~ 45 J, 20 fs,...
Recent progress in laser physics enabled us to generate high-flux particle pulses by laser-plasma interactions with high power laser. One of the possible applications for laser-driven beams from a compact laser system is generation of medical radioisotopes inside of hospitals. At present, many medical radioisotopes have been produced by compact proton accelerators or nuclear reactors. However,...
We report on an effort to create a flexible ultra-narrow, bandwidth (10$^{-5}$ to 10$^{-6}$), high-energy (100 keV to 3 MeV) photon source consisting of a high spectral density Laser Compton Source (LCS) and an ultra-high precision crystal diffractometer. We explain design choices allowing the construction of a LCS with high photon phase space density and pronounced energy-angle correlation....
