Marco Borghesi

TL;DR: An overview of the state of the art of ion acceleration by laser pulses as well as an outlook on its future development and perspectives are given in this article. But the main features observed in the experiments, the observed scaling with laser and plasma parameters, and the main models used both to interpret experimental data and to suggest new research directions are described.

TL;DR: An intense laser-plasma interaction regime of the generation of high density ultrashort relativistic ion beams is suggested and it is suggested that the laser energy is transformed efficiently into the energy of fast ions.

TL;DR: In this article, scaling laws derived from fluid models and supported by numerical simulations are used to accurately describe the acceleration of proton beams for a large range of laser and target parameters.

TL;DR: The acceleration of high-energy ion beams (up to several tens of mega-electron-volts per nucleon) following the interaction of short (t 1018 W˙cm-2˙μm-2) laser pulses w...

TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of laser-plasma interaction conditions of relevance for inertial confinement fusion (ICF)/fast ignition has been explored, including the electric field distribution in laser-produced long-scale plasmas of ICF interest, the measurement of highly transient electric fields related to the generation and dynamics of hot electron currents following ultra-intense laser irradiation of targets, and the observation in underdense Plasmas, after the...