Laser-triggered ion acceleration and table top isotope production

Authors

K. Nemoto, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Iwado-kita, Komae-shi, Tokyo, Japan
Anatoly Maksimchuk, University of MichiganFollow
Sudeep Banerjee, University of Michigan, Ann ArborFollow
K. Flippo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
G. Mourou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Donald P. Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
B. Yu. Bychenkov, P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science

Date of this Version

1-29-2001

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. Applied Physics Letters 78, 595 (2001). ©2001 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. HREF="http://apl.aip.org/”>http://apl.aip.org/.

Abstract

We have observed deuterons accelerated to energies of about 2 MeV in the interaction of relativistically intense 10 TW, 400 fs laser pulse with a thin layer of deuterated polystyrene deposited on Mylar film. These high-energy deuterons were directed to the boron sample, where they produced ~10⁵ atoms of positron active isotope ¹¹C from the reaction ¹⁰B(d,n)¹¹C. The activation results suggest that deuterons were accelerated from the front surface of the target.