Titolo della tesi: Transport and manipulation of laser driven proton beams for diagnostics and applications
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the transport and the manipulation of laser-driven proton beams for both diagnostics and applications.
This work is mainly separated into two parts: (1) a theoretical study of a new spectrometer for laser ion diagnostics and (2) a detailed study of a laser Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) beamline for material science applications.
Increased knowledge about the source of the laser-generated proton is translated in being able to ``control'' and increase the understanding of the evolution of the acceleration process at the beginning, whereas the development of a customized transport beamline is translated in increasing the ``control'' of the final proton parameters required for a specific application.