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 …

Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows

CM Huntington, F Fiuza, JS Ross, AB Zylstra… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Nuclear diagnostics for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) plasmas

JA Frenje - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of nuclear diagnostics for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is broadly reviewed
from its beginning in the seventies to present day. During this time, the sophistication of the …

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 …

Proton imaging of stochastic magnetic fields

AFA Bott, C Graziani, P Tzeferacos, TG White… - Journal of Plasma …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Recent laser-plasma experiments (Fox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 111, 2013, 225002;
Huntington et al., Nat. Phys., vol. 11 (2), 2015, 173–176; Tzeferacos et al., Phys. Plasmas …

Magnetic signatures of radiation-driven double ablation fronts

PT Campbell, CA Walsh, BK Russell, JP Chittenden… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
In experiments performed with the OMEGA EP laser system, magnetic field generation in
double ablation fronts was observed. Proton radiography measured the strength, spatial …

A laboratory study of asymmetric magnetic reconnection in strongly driven plasmas

MJ Rosenberg, CK Li, W Fox, I Igumenshchev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection, the annihilation and rearrangement of magnetic fields in a plasma,
is a universal phenomenon that frequently occurs when plasmas carrying oppositely …

Observations of pressure anisotropy effects within semi-collisional magnetized plasma bubbles

ER Tubman, AS Joglekar, AFA Bott, M Borghesi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Magnetized plasma interactions are ubiquitous in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.
Various physical effects have been shown to be important within colliding plasma flows …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic field production via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows

CM Huntington, MJE Manuel, JS Ross, SC Wilks… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Many astrophysical systems are effectively “collisionless,” that is, the mean free path for
collisions between particles is much longer than the size of the system. The absence of …

Demonstration of TNSA proton radiography on the national ignition facility advanced radiographic capability (NIF-ARC) laser

RA Simpson, DA Mariscal, J Kim… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Proton radiography using short-pulse laser drivers is an important tool in high-energy
density (HED) science for dynamically diagnosing key characteristics in plasma interactions …