Laser-triggered ion acceleration and table top isotope production
- 29 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 78 (5), 595-597
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1343845
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 C11 from the reaction B10(d,n)11C. The activation results suggest that deuterons were accelerated from the front surface of the target.Keywords
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