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 …

Dynamical characteristics of solitary waves, shocks and envelope modes in kappa-distributed non-thermal plasmas: an overview

I Kourakis, S Sultana, MA Hellberg - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Space plasmas provide abundant evidence of highly energetic particle population,
resulting in a long-tailed non-Maxwellian distribution. Furthermore, the first stages in the …

[HTML][HTML] Multidimensional electron beam-plasma instabilities in the relativistic regime

A Bret, L Gremillet, ME Dieckmann - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The interest in relativistic beam-plasma instabilities has been greatly rejuvenated over the
past two decades by novel concepts in laboratory and space plasmas. Recent advances in …

Generating “Superponderomotive” Electrons due to a Non-Wake-Field Interaction<? format?> between a Laser Pulse and a Longitudinal Electric Field

APL Robinson, AV Arefiev, D Neely - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
It is shown that electrons with momenta exceeding the “free electron” limit of meca 0 2/2 can
be produced when a laser pulse and a longitudinal electric field interact with an electron via …

Ion acoustic solitons and supersolitons in a magnetized plasma with nonthermal hot electrons and Boltzmann cool electrons

OR Rufai, R Bharuthram, SV Singh, GS Lakhina - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Arbitrary amplitude, ion acoustic solitons, and supersolitons are studied in a magnetized
plasma with two distinct groups of electrons at different temperatures. The plasma consists of …

Electrostatic shock dynamics in superthermal plasmas

S Sultana, G Sarri, I Kourakis - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The propagation of ion acoustic shocks in nonthermal plasmas is investigated, both
analytically and numerically. An unmagnetized collisionless electron-ion plasma is …

[HTML][HTML] Ion acoustic solitons in magnetized collisional non-thermal dusty plasmas

S Sultana - Physics Letters A, 2018 - Elsevier
The oblique propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) is considered, in a
magnetized non-thermal collisional dusty plasma, composed of non-Maxwelian κ-distributed …

Cnoidal electron hole propagation: Trapping, the forgotten nonlinearity in plasma and fluid dynamics

H Schamel - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Phase space holes, well-known for a couple of decades, are long living electrostatic
structures in driven, collisionless plasmas far away from thermodynamic equilibrium …

Homotopy perturbation and Adomian decomposition methods for modeling the nonplanar structures in a bi-ion ionospheric superthermal plasma

SA El-Tantawy, SA Shan, N Mustafa… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The propagation of cylindrical and spherical (nonplanar) electrostatic ion-acoustic waves
(IAWs) in a collisionless, unmagnetized, and homogeneous plasma consisting of hot and …

High-power, kilojoule class laser channeling in millimeter-scale underdense plasma

L Willingale, PM Nilson, AGR Thomas, J Cobble… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Experiments were performed using the Omega EP laser, operating at 740 J of energy in 8 ps
(90 TW), which provides extreme conditions relevant to fast ignition studies. A carbon and …