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Monoenergetic ion beams play essential roles in many important applications such as fast ignition fusion, cancer therapy, and other applications [1]. The new accelerating method, laser ion acceleration, attracts more and more attention nowadays since the acceleration gradient is at least four magnitudes higher than that of conventional methods. A number of novel mechanisms have been proposed for accelerating protons or heavier ions to high energies using the recently available high-intensity short-pulse lasers. With target-normal sheath acceleration, protons up to 58 MeV have been obtained with 3 × 1020 W/cm2 lasers [2].
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Ji, L. (2014). Ion Acceleration I: Efficient Heavy Ion Acceleration by ESA. In: Ion acceleration and extreme light field generation based on ultra-short and ultra–intense lasers. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54007-3_2
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