Multi-charged heavy ion acceleration from the ultra-intense short pulse laser system interacting with the metal target

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Nishio, Katsuhisa   ; Sako, Hiroyuki   ; Orlandi, R.  ; Pikuz, T.; Faenov, A.*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Matsukawa, Kenya*; Sagisaka, Akito; Ogura, Koichi; Kanasaki, Masato; Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Fukuda, Yuji; Koura, Hiroyuki   ; Kando, Masaki; Yamauchi, Tomoya*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Bulanov, S. V.; Kondo, Kiminori; Imai, Kenichi; Nagamiya, Shoji

To investigate the quark-gruon plasma or the systhesis of the super-heavy elements, the upgrade of the existing large accelerator facilities are going on. At J-PARC, the high flux high energy heavy ion beam is also desired. To have the beam, it is key issue how to obtain the high Q/M heavy ions a the ion source. However, the conventional ion source technique have difficulties to obtain such ions. On the other hand, we succeeded to obtain the high Q/M heavy ion beam with 10 MeV/u from the interaction between the J-KAREN laser and thin foil target interaction. This results shows that the laser-driven ion acceleration scheme have possibility that it can substitute the conventional ion source as well as the injector.