Collisionless shocks, that is shocks mediated by electromagnetic processes, are customary
in space physics and in astrophysics. They are to be found in a great variety of objects and …

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Collisionless shocks can be produced as a result of strong magnetic fields in a plasma flow,
and therefore are common in many astrophysical systems. The Weibel instability is one …

ELI-Beamlines (ELI-BL), one of the three pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure
endeavour, will be in a unique position to perform research in high-energy-density-physics …

Astrophysical collisionless shocks are among the most powerful particle accelerators in the
Universe. Generated by violent interactions of supersonic plasma flows with the interstellar …

Laboratory facilities employing high pulsed currents and voltages, and called generally
“pulsed-power facilities,” allow experimenters to produce a variety of hydrodynamical …

Plasma current filamentation of an ultrarelativistic electron beam impinging on an overdense
plasma is investigated, with emphasis on radiation-induced electron polarization. Particle-in …

Observations of magnetic reconnection between colliding plumes of magnetized laser-
produced plasma are presented. Two counterpropagating plasma flows are created by …

This work describes the Plasma Simulation Code (psc), an explicit, electromagnetic particle-
in-cell code with support for different order particle shape functions. We review the basic …

We study within a fully kinetic framework the generation of “seed” magnetic fields through
the Weibel instability, driven in an initially unmagnetized plasma by a large-scale shear …