Production of radioactive nuclides by energetic protons generated from intense laser-plasma interactions
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 78 (1), 19-21
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1335849
Abstract
Nuclear activation has been observed in materials exposed to the ablated plasma generated from high intensity laser–solid interactions (at focused intensities up to and is produced by protons having energies up to 30 MeV. The energy spectrum of the protons is determined from these activation measurements and is found to be consistent with other ion diagnostics. The possible development of this technique for “table-top” production of radionuclides for medical applications is also discussed.
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