Studies of high density baryon matter with high intensity heavy-ion beams at J-PARC

Sako, Hiroyuki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Sakaguchi, Takao*; Chujo, Tatsuya*; Esumi, Shinichi*; Gunji, Taku*; Hasegawa, Shoichi; Hwang, S.; Ichikawa, Yudai; Imai, Kenichi; et al.

Nuclear Physics A, 956, p.850 - 853, 2016/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.03.030

Laser-driven multi-charged heavy ion beam acceleration

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Pikuz, T. A.*; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Sagisaka, Akito; Ogura, Koichi; Kanasaki, Masato; et al.

Research Using Extreme Light; Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers II (Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.9515), p.95151D_1 - 95151D_4, 2015/06

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179204

Experimental demonstration of multi-charged heavy ion acceleration from the interaction between the ultra-intense short pulse laser system and the metal target is presented. The laser pulse of 10 J laser energy, 36 fs pulse width, and the contrast level of 10 from 200 TW class Ti:sapphire J-KAREN laser system at JAEA is used in the experiment. Almost fully stripped Fe ions accelerated up to 0.9 GeV are demonstrated. This is achieved by the high intensity laser field of 10Wcm interacting with the solid density target. The demonstrated iron ions with high charge to mass ratio (Q/M) is difficult to be achieved by the conventional heavy ion source technique in the accelerators.

Event structure and double helicity asymmetry in jet production from polarized collisions at = 200 GeV

Adare, A.*; Afanasiev, S.*; Aidala, C.*; Ajitanand, N. N.*; Akiba, Y.*; Al-Bataineh, H.*; Alexander, J.*; Aoki, K.*; Aphecetche, L.*; Armendariz, R.*; et al.

Physical Review D, 84(1), p.012006_1 - 012006_18, 2011/07

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.012006

We report on the event structure and double helicity asymmetry () of jet production in longitudinally polarized collisions at = 200 GeV. Photons and charged particles were measured by the PHENIX experiment. Event structure was compared with the results from PYTHIA event generator. The production rate of reconstructed jets is satisfactorily reproduced with the next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation. We measured = -0.0014 0.0037 at the lowest bin and -0.0181 0.0282 at the highest bin. The measured is compared with the predictions that assume various distributions.

Azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor decay with hadrons in and Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

Adare, A.*; Afanasiev, S.*; Aidala, C.*; Ajitanand, N. N.*; Akiba, Yasuyuki*; Al-Bataineh, H.*; Alexander, J.*; Aoki, Kazuya*; Aphecetche, L.*; Aramaki, Y.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 83(4), p.044912_1 - 044912_16, 2011/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.83.044912

Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary-scaled collisions. Here we extend these studies to two particle correlations where one particle is an electron from the decay of a heavy flavor meson and the other is a charged hadron from either the decay of the heavy meson or from jet fragmentation. These measurements provide more detailed information about the interaction between heavy quarks and the quark-gluon matter. We find the away-side-jet shape and yield to be modified in Au+Au collisions compared to collisions.

The Possibility of laser-driven heavy ion source

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Sako, Hiroyuki; Pikuz, T.; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Matsukawa, Kenya*; Maeda, Shota; et al.

no journal, , 

The up-grade plan for the heavy ion accelerator facilities in the world is now going on. The important issues to be solved is how to make high-current, high Q/M and high energy heavy ion beam. To make smaller size heavy ion accelerator is important in order to minimize the construction and running costs. The key issue is, "whether or not we can obtain high Q/M ion beam at the very beginning of the accelerator stages". However, the existing conventional ion-source technology can supply the beam of Q/M 0.2. On the other hand, our research at is to accelerate the ions by the laser-based method by using high contrast high intensity short pulse laser system, J-KAREN. Thanks to the extra-ordinary high quasi-static electric field of 100 TV/m set in our method, the ions are efficiently stripped and accelerated toward high energy. By optimizing the condition, it is very probable that not only the laser-based ion source but also the laser-based ion injector would be realized. We show the experimental results of high-energy heavy ion acceleration by the interaction between high intensity short-pulse laser pulse interaction with the thin-foil target.

Laser-driven ion acceleration by high intensity short-pulse high-contrast laser system at JAEA

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Orlandi, R.; Sako, Hiroyuki; Pikuz, T.; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Matsukawa, Kenya*; et al.

no journal, , 

For the applications of compact injector, we conduct the ion acceleration experiments using relatively compact and high-contrast short pulse laser system, J-KAREN at KPSI JAEA. The on-target laser intensity of 10 Wcm with 200TW, less than 10J of energy, is achieved by controlling the temporal and spatial pulse profiles. Without applying plasma mirror system, the maximum proton energy of 43 MeV is obtained with aluminum (Al) 0.8 um thick target. In some shots we observe that the protons and Al ions are accelerated up to 30 MeV and 12 MeV/u, respectively. With the soft X-ray spectroscopy the Al ions are found to be almost fully stripped, which is caused by the synergy of three major effects: optical field ionization due to the laser and plasma collective fields; the electron impact ionization; and the X-ray single photon ionization. The observation of almost fully stripped Al ions proves that laser-driven ions acceleration is a promising ion source for the conventional accelerator. In addition, the observed energy of 12 MeV/u of the Al ions shows that the laser-based ion acceleration method can be the basis of a compact heavy ion injector for nuclear physics.

Laser-driven heavy ion acceleration and its applications

Sakaki, Hironao; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Pikuz, T. A.*; Faenov, A.*; Orlandi, R.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Sako, Hiroyuki; Sagisaka, Akito; et al.

no journal, , 

The novel tool for the frontier of the exotic nucleus was proposed by fusing the high-intensity laser technology and the accelerator technology. We carried out its proof-of-concept experiments at the J-KAREN laser system. And, the iron which is simulated the produced exotic nucleus were extracted by the laser from aluminum membrane.

Proof of principle experiment of Laser-driven Exotic Nuclei extraction-acceleration method

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Orlandi, R.; Sako, Hiroyuki; Pikuz, T. A.*; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Matsukawa, Kenya*; et al.

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The contemporary radiofrequency accelerator technology provides radio-isotope beams for the research. However, the existing technology now faces difficulties in exploring the further frontiers. One of the solutions might be brought by the combination of the state of the art high intensity short pulse laser system and the nuclear measurement technique. Recent progress of the laser technology brought table-top lasers with focused intensity up to 10 Wcm with only less than 10 J of energy on target. By the interaction with the solid density target, the laser can extract heavy ions in multi-charged state and low emittance, independently on the chemical properties of the target material. We propose Laser-driven Exotic Nuclei extraction-acceleration methods (LENex), in which the exotic nuclei which are the products in the target by the bombardment of the external ion beam, are extracted away by a femtosecond petawatt laser pulse in the form of highly-charged and high energy beam. As a proof-of-experiment of the LENex scheme, we demonstrate the extraction of the almost fully stripped iron ions with the energies of 0.9 GeV. by J-KAREN laser system.