Helium-3 and Helium-4 acceleration by high power laser pulses for hadron therapy

Bulanov, S. S.*; Esarey, E.*; Schroeder, C. B.*; Leemans, W.*; Bulanov, S. V.; Margarone, D.*; Korn, G.*; Haberer, T.*

We show that He $^{3}$ ions, having almost the same penetration depth as He $^{4}$ with the same energy per nucleon, require less laser power to be accelerated to the required energy for the hadron therapy.

Language	:	English
Journal	:	Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams
Volume	:	18
Number	:	6
Pages	:	p.061302_1 - 061302_6
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Paper URL	:	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.061302
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Registration No. : AA20150189
JAEA Abstracts No. : 44000449
Paper Submission No. : 17126

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