Application of MeV Laser Driven Proton Beams: Current developments and prospects ...

Thanks to the rapid developments in the high power
short pulse laser technology, laser plasma
interaction has become a vibrant and strongly
evolving area of science with unprecedented
expansion of its horizon. Among the most significant
achievements, the laser driven energetic (several
tens of MeV) proton beam from solid target has made
an benchmark due to their exceptional properties
such as high laminarity, brightness and short burst
duration. Therefore it gave birth to new avenues of
research in the pursuit of their widespread
applications in healthcare, industry and scientific
research. The book presents a blend of the ongoing
experimental and computational research works,
devoted to three major application areas of the
multi-MeV proton beam. They are - focussing of the
proton beam for warm dense matter production via
isochoric heating; proton radiography of dense
matter to diagnose the probed object density profile;
and proton imaging of transient electric and magnetic fields involved in a intense laser-plasma
interaction. Several experimental and computational
tools employed for the research work are discussed.