Juan C. Fernández

TL;DR: Quasi-monoenergetic laser-driven C5+ ions with a vastly reduced energy spread are reported, which may enable significant advances in the development of compact MeV ion accelerators, new diagnostics, medical physics, inertial confinement fusion and fast ignition.

TL;DR: The laminarity of high-current multi-MeV proton beams produced by irradiating thin metallic foils with ultraintense lasers has been measured and appears to be at least 100-fold better than conventional accelerator beams.

TL;DR: In this article, a new laser-driven ion acceleration mechanism using ultrathin targets has been identified from particle-in-cell simulations, which accelerates ions to much higher energies using laser intensities comparable to earlier target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA).

TL;DR: This work demonstrated an ion acceleration mechanism based on the concept of relativistic transparency and produced an intense beam of high energy deuterons directed into a Be converter to produce a forward peaked neutron flux with a record yield.

TL;DR: A new laser-driven ion acceleration mechanism has been identified using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations as discussed by the authors, which enables the acceleration of carbon ions to greater than 2 GeV energy at a laser intensity of only 1021 W/cm2.