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FLASH-therapy suitable single-pulse proton generation using TiH2 under nanosecond laser irradiation.
Shotaro Matsui, Takeshi Kanesue, Shunsuke Ikeda, Toshiro Sakabe, Masahiro Okamura
Published: 202610.1063/5.0303349
Abstract
We investigated proton emission from titanium hydride (TiH2) targets irradiated in vacuum by a 6-ns, 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser. Time-of-flight measurements with a Faraday cup and an electrostatic ion analyzer resolved distinct proton peaks at high pulse e…
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