Laser-driven Bidirectional Quasi-monoenergetic Deuterons Enabled by Target Transparency in Boosted Coulomb Explosion
This paper reports the experimental observation of bidirectional quasi-monoenergetic deuterons (20.4 MeV and 23.8 MeV) accelerated via the Boosted Coulomb Explosion mechanism in a relativistically transparent thin aluminum target, thereby validating and expanding the potential applications of this laser-driven ion acceleration scheme.