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Abstract

We report on the technological commissioning of the Laser–Plasma Ion Accelerator section of the ELIMAIA user beamline at the ELI Beamlines facility in the Czech Republic. The high-peak, high-average power L3-HAPLS laser system was used with an energy of ~10 J and pulse duration of ~30 fs on target, both in single-pulse and high repetition-rate (~0.5 Hz) mode. The laser pulse was tightly focused to reach ultrahigh intensity on target (~1021 W/cm2) and sustain such laser–plasma interaction regime during high repetition-rate operations. The laser beam, ion beam, and laser–plasma emission were monitored on a shot-to-shot basis, and online data analysis at 0.5 Hz was demonstrated through the full set of used diagnostics (e.g., far and near field, laser temporal diagnostics, X- and gamma-ray detectors, Thomson Parabola ion spectrometer, time-of-flight ion detectors, plasma imaging, etc.). The capability and reliability of the ELIMAIA Ion Accelerator was successfully demonstrated at a repetition rate of 0.5 Hz for several hundreds of consecutive laser shots.

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Title
The ELIMAIA Laser–Plasma Ion Accelerator: Technological Commissioning and Perspectives
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Schillaci, Francesco 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Giuffrida, Lorenzo 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tryus, Maksym 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Grepl, Filip 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Stancek, Stanislav 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Velyhan, Andriy 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Istokskaia, Valeriia 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Levato, Tadzio 1 ; Petringa, Giada 4 ; Cirrone, Giuseppe A P 4 ; Cupal, Josef 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Koubiková, Lucia 1 ; Peceli, Davorin 1 ; Jarboe, Jeffrey Alan 1 ; Tarcio de Castro Silva 1 ; Cuhra, Martin 1 ; Chagovets, Timofej 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kantarelou, Vasiliki 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tosca, Marco 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ivanyan, Vahagn 1 ; Žáková, Martina Greplová 2 ; Psikal, Jan 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Truneček, Roman 1 ; Cimmino, Anna 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Versaci, Roberto 1 ; Olšovlcová, Veronika 1 ; Kramer, Daniel 1 ; Bakule, Pavel 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ridky, Jan 1 ; Korn, Georg 1 ; Rus, Bedrich 1 ; Margarone, Daniele 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic 
 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 115 19 Prague, Czech Republic 
 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacky University, Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 772 07 Olomouc, Czech Republic 
 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, 95 123 Catania, Italy 
 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; Department of Macromolecular Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague, Czech Republic 
 Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI–Beamlines Center, Institute of Physics, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK 
First page
30
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
2412382X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2756782163
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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.