NUKLEONIKA 2012, 57(2):221-225

 


CONTROL OF THE PROPAGATION OF INTENSE PULSES IN GAS
FOR LASER PLASMA ACCELERATION



Danilo Giulietti1,2, Carlo A. Cecchetti2, Nadejda V. Drenska1,3, Riccardo Faccini1,3, Claudio Gatti4, Giancarlo Gatti4, Antonio Giulietti2, Leonida Gizzi2, Luca Labate2,
Tadzio Levato2,4, Silvia Martellotti1,3, Naveen Pathak1,2, Paolo Valente1,3

1 National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Pisa, Italy
2 Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory (ILIL), Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, UOS Adriano Gozzini, CNR, Pisa, Italy
3 Physics Department of the University “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
4 LNF, National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Frascati, Italy


The role of the propagation mechanisms of intense and ultra-short laser pulses in gas is presented, as well as the first results of the laser plasma acceleration (LPA) tests at Frascati National Laboratories (INFN), in the frame of NTA-PLASMONX project.


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