Towards a novel laser-driven method of exotic nuclei extraction-acceleration for fundamental physics and technology

Nishiuchi, Mamiko*; Sakaki, Hironao*; Esirkepov, T. Zh.*; Nishio, Katsuhisa   ; Pikuz, T. A.*; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Skobelev, I. Yu.*; Orlandi, R.  ; Pirozhkov, A. S.*; 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*

A combination of a petawatt laser and nuclear physics techniques can crucially facilitate the measurement of exotic nuclei properties. With numerical simulations and laser-driven experiments we show prospects for the Laser-driven Exotic Nuclei extraction-acceleration method proposed in [M. Nishiuchi et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 033107 (2015)]: a femtosecond petawatt laser, irradiating a target bombarded by an external ion beam, extracts from the target and accelerates to few GeV highly charged short-lived heavy exotic nuclei created in the target via nuclear reactions.