Lasers and Nuclei - Applications of Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers in Nuclear Science

Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application to nuclear science. A basic introduction to laser--matter interaction at high fields is complemented by detailed presentations of state of the art laser particle acceleration and elementary laser nuclear experiments. The text also discusses future applications of lasers in nuclear science, for example in nuclear astrophysics, isotope generation, nuclear fuel physics and proton and neutron imaging.

List of contents

Fundamentals and Equipment.- The Nuclear Era of Laser Interactions: New Milestones in the History of Power Compression.- High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interaction.- Laser-Triggered Nuclear Reactions.- POLARIS: An All Diode-Pumped Ultrahigh Peak Power Laser for High Repetition Rates.- The Megajoule Laser - A High-Energy-Density Physics Facility.- Sources.- Electron and Proton Beams Produced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration and Nuclear Activation.- Pulsed Neutron Sources with Tabletop Laser-Accelerated Protons.- Transmutation.- Laser Transmutation of Nuclear Materials.- High-brightness ?-Ray Generation for Nuclear Transmutation.- Potential Role of Lasers for Sustainable Fission Energy Production and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste.- High-Power Laser Production of PET Isotopes.- Nuclear Science.- Nuclear Physics with High-Intensity Lasers.- Nuclear Physics with Laser Compton ?-Rays.- Status of Neutron Imaging.

Summary

Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application to nuclear science. A basic introduction to laser--matter interaction at high fields is complemented by detailed presentations of state of the art laser particle acceleration and elementary laser nuclear experiments. The text also discusses future applications of lasers in nuclear science, for example in nuclear astrophysics, isotope generation, nuclear fuel physics and proton and neutron imaging.

Product details

• Assisted by: Burgard Beleites (Editor), Josep Magill (Editor), Joseph Magill (Editor), Heinrich Schwoerer (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2006
• EAN: 9783540302711
• ISBN: 978-3-540-30271-1
• No. of pages: 255
• Weight: 559 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 255 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; Laser, B, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, engineering, Lasers, Physics and Astronomy, Optical physics, Photonics, Applied optics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Accelerator Physics, Particle acceleration, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Engineering: general, Engineering, general, Technology and Engineering