Diagnostic of laser-accelerated ion beams for the ELIMED project

The laser-generated plasma, in non equilibrium conditions, has peculiar properties depending strongly on thelaser parameters, on the target composition and on the target geometry. Different fast diagnostic techniques can beemployed for the plasma characterization in terms of particles and photons emission, plasma temperature and density, ionenergy distribution, angular emission, yield and electric field acceleration. Particular attention is devoted to the protonemission from hydrogenated targets and to the proton diagnostics by using time of flight techniques and Thomsonparabola spectrometry. The diagnostic techniques will be presented and discussed on the base of the development of theELIMED project.