• A. Almomani, M. Droba, U. Ratzinger
  IAP, Frankfurt am Main
• I. Hofmann
  GSI, Darmstadt

The concept of laser acceleration of protons by Target Normal Sheath Acceleration TNSA from thin foils could be used to produce a high intensity proton bunch. This proton bunch could be injected into a linac at energies of ten to several tens MeV. A CH^- structure is suggested as the linac structure because of its high gradient. The motivation for such a combination is to deliver single beam bunches with quite small emittance values of extremely high particle number - in the order of 10 billion protons per bunch. Optimum emittance values for linac injection are compared with available, laser generated beam parameters. Options and simulation tools for beam matching by pulsed solenoid and CH^- structure using LASIN and LORASR codes are presented.