Laser acceleration of ion beams
  We consider methods of charged particle acceleration by means of high-intensity lasers. As an application we discuss a laser booster for heavy ion beams provided, e.g. by the Dubna nuclotron. Simple estimates show that a cascade of crossed laser beams would be necessary to provide additional acceleration to gold ions of the order of GeV/nucleon. 
I.A. Egorova, A.V. Filatov, A.V. Prozorkevich, S.A. Smolyansky, D.B.   Blaschke, M. Chubaryan