Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

A Macchi, M Borghesi, M Passoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

The scaling of proton energies in ultrashort pulse laser plasma acceleration

K Zeil, SD Kraft, S Bock, M Bussmann… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a systematic investigation of an ultrashort pulse laser acceleration of
protons that yields unprecedented maximum proton energies of 17 MeV at a table-top Ti …

Observation of Megagauss-Field Topology Changes due to Magnetic Reconnection<? format?> in Laser-Produced Plasmas

CK Li, FH Séguin, JA Frenje, JR Rygg, RD Petrasso… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
The spatial structure and temporal evolution of megagauss magnetic fields generated by
interactions of up to 4 laser beams with matter were studied with an innovative, time-gated …

Laboratory evidence of dynamo amplification of magnetic fields in a turbulent plasma

P Tzeferacos, A Rigby, AFA Bott, AR Bell… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. The energy density of these fields is typically
comparable to the energy density of the fluid motions of the plasma in which they are …

Proton radiography of inertial fusion implosions

JR Rygg, FH Séguin, CK Li, JA Frenje, MJE Manuel… - Science, 2008 - science.org
A distinctive way of quantitatively imaging inertial fusion implosions has resulted in the
characterization of two different types of electromagnetic configurations and in the …

Relativistic magnetic reconnection in laser laboratory for testing an emission mechanism of hard-state black hole system

KFF Law, Y Abe, A Morace, Y Arikawa, S Sakata, S Lee… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Magnetic reconnection in a relativistic electron magnetization regime was observed in a
laboratory plasma produced by a high-intensity, large energy, picoseconds laser pulse …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling laser-driven ion acceleration with deep learning

BZ Djordjević, AJ Kemp, J Kim, RA Simpson… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Developments in machine learning promise to ameliorate some of the challenges of
modeling complex physical systems through neural-network-based surrogate models. High …

Invited article: Relation between electric and magnetic field structures and their proton-beam images

NL Kugland, DD Ryutov, C Plechaty, JS Ross… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Proton imaging is commonly used to reveal the electric and magnetic fields that are found in
high energy density plasmas. Presented here is an analysis of this technique that is directed …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast proton radiography of the magnetic fields generated by a laser-driven coil current

L Gao, H Ji, G Fiksel, W Fox, M Evans, N Alfonso - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic fields generated by a current flowing through a U-shaped coil connecting two
copper foils were measured using ultrafast proton radiography. Two∼ 1.25 kJ, 1-ns laser …