Magnetic Reconnection & Particle

[HEDS13-04] Repetitive Generation of Laser-driven Quasi-monoenergetic Multi-MeV Protons from Hydrogen Clusters

*Masato Kanasaki¹, Takafumi Asai^1,8, Chihiro Inoue^1,8, Seiichiro Mochizuki¹, Takumi Minami^2,8, Kentaro Sakai², Kousuke Himeno², Tomoya Taguchi², Kazumasa Oda², Souichiro Suzuki², Yuki Abe², Hideki Kohri³, Atsushi Tokiyasu⁴, Shuta Tanaka⁵, Tatiana Pikuz⁶, Satoshi Kodaira⁷, Akira Kon⁸, Kai Huang⁸, Nobuhiko Nakanii⁸, Kotaro Kondo⁸, Masaki Kando⁸, Yuji Mashiba⁸, Yasuhiro Miyasaka⁸, Koichi Ogura⁸, Akito Sagisaka⁸, Hiromitsu Kiriyama⁸, Tomoya Yamauchi¹, Yasuhiro Kuramitsu², Yuji Fukuda⁸ (1. Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, 2. Graduate school of Engineering, Osaka University, 3. Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, 4. Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University, 5. College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 6. Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, 7. National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 8. Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))

In the laser-driven ion accelaration experiments using hydrogen cluster targets, we have confirmed the conditions for the acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic a few MeV protons via laser-cluster interactions.