# Radiation induced acceleration of ions

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how radiation friction influences electron dynamics under intense laser pulses, leading to enhanced ion acceleration, with models and simulations analyzing energy scaling and performance compared to traditional methods.

## Contribution

It introduces a model and simulation results demonstrating radiation friction's role in accelerating ions and compares this mechanism to conventional ion acceleration techniques.

## Key findings

- Radiation friction significantly enhances ion acceleration.
- Maximal ion energies depend on laser and target parameters.
- The mechanism outperforms some conventional ion acceleration methods.

## Abstract

Radiation friction can have a substantial impact on electron dynamics in a transparent target exposed to a strong laser pulse. In particular, by modifying quiver electron motion, it can strongly enhance the longitudinal charge separation field, thus stimulating ion acceleration. We present a model and simulation results for such a radiation induced ion acceleration and study the scalings of the maximal attainable and average ion energies with respect to the laser and target parameters. We also compare the performance of this mechanism to the conventional ones.