The LIAA group has detected laser-accelerated protons with energies exceeding

Millestone: December 15, 2016: The LIAA group has detected laser-accelerated protons with energies exceeding 2 MeV. The measurements have been realised in collaboration with scientists from PLA (Vilafranca del Penedès), CNM (Barcelona), and USC (Santiago de Compostela). Successful laser acceleration experiments have been run by our group since June 2015. Since then, an increase in laser pulse energy (265 mJ) and contrast and improved target design have allowed for achieving each time higher particle energies.