Production of multiply charged ion beams with an energy of tens of MeVucleon by ultrahigh-power laser radiation for nuclear physics problems

摘要

We report a comprehensive analysis of an earlier proposed method which employs ultrahigh-power (petawatt) circularly polarised laser radiation to generate multiply charged ion beams in its interaction with a nanostructured two-component target; the ion beams are intended for application in nuclear physics. The problems of heavy atom ionisation in a superstrong laser field and laserinduced acceleration of the resultant ions to energies of ?20 - 30 MeVucleon are considered.