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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Phys.
Sec. Fusion Plasma Physics
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2024.1480868
This article is part of the Research Topic Spin-Polarized Particles in Relativistic Plasmas for Particle Accelerators and Fusion Reactors View all 4 articles

Isolated Spin Polarized Hydrogen atoms as targets for laser-induced polarized electron acceleration

Provisionally accepted
Dimitris Sofikitis Dimitris Sofikitis 1,2*Marios G Stamatakis Marios G Stamatakis 3Dimitrios G Papazoglou Dimitrios G Papazoglou 4Theodore Peter RAKITZIS Theodore Peter RAKITZIS 5
  • 1 University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
  • 2 Department of Physics, School of Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
  • 3 Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
  • 4 Department of Materials Science and Technology, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
  • 5 Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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    High density Spin Polarized Hydrogen (SPH) atoms, which can be prepared using UV dissociation of hydro-halide molecules, can be attractive as potential targets for laser ionization/acceleration schemes aiming to create high energy and high current polarized electron beams. However, for these SPH targets to be of practical use, they have to be spatially isolated from the halide atoms which accompany hydrogen in the parent hydro-halide molecule. We show how the UV dissociation dynamics of hydro-halides and the dissociation geometry and timing can be combined to prepare a variety of isolated SPH targets aimed to accommodate laser acceleration schemes.

    Keywords: polarization, Laser acceleration, electron beams, photodissociation, Molecular Beams

    Received: 14 Aug 2024; Accepted: 13 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Sofikitis, Stamatakis, Papazoglou and RAKITZIS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dimitris Sofikitis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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