Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

S Kneip, C McGuffey, JL Martins, SF Martins, C Bellei… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Each successive generation of X-ray machines has opened up new frontiers in science,
such as the first radiographs and the determination of the structure of DNA. State-of-the-art X …

Self-guided laser wakefield acceleration beyond 1 GeV using ionization-induced injection

CE Clayton, JE Ralph, F Albert, RA Fonseca… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
The concepts of matched-beam, self-guided laser propagation and ionization-induced
injection have been combined to accelerate electrons up to 1.45 GeV energy in a laser …

Demonstration of a Narrow Energy Spread, Electron Beam <?format ?>from a Two-Stage Laser Wakefield Accelerator

BB Pollock, CE Clayton, JE Ralph, F Albert… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons holds great promise for producing ultracompact
stages of GeV scale, high-quality electron beams for applications such as x-ray free electron …

Laser-driven shock acceleration of monoenergetic ion beams

F Fiúza, A Stockem, E Boella, RA Fonseca, LO Silva… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We show that monoenergetic ion beams can be accelerated by moderate Mach number
collisionless, electrostatic shocks propagating in a long scale-length exponentially decaying …

Interpenetrating plasma shells: near-equipartition magnetic field generation and nonthermal particle acceleration

LO Silva, RA Fonseca, JW Tonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first three-dimensional fully kinetic electromagnetic relativistic" particle-in-
cell" simulations of the collision of two interpenetrating plasma shells. The highly accurate …

One-to-one direct modeling of experiments and astrophysical scenarios: pushing the envelope on kinetic plasma simulations

RA Fonseca, SF Martins, LO Silva… - Plasma Physics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
There are many astrophysical and laboratory scenarios where kinetic effects play an
important role. These range from astrophysical shocks and plasma shell collisions to high …

QUICKPIC: A highly efficient particle-in-cell code for modeling wakefield acceleration in plasmas

C Huang, VK Decyk, C Ren, M Zhou, W Lu… - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
A highly efficient, fully parallelized, fully relativistic, three-dimensional particle-in-cell model
for simulating plasma and laser wakefield acceleration is described. The model is based on …

fluorescence measurement of relativistic electron transport in the context of fast ignition

RB Stephens, RA Snavely, Y Aglitskiy, F Amiranoff… - Physical Review E …, 2004 - APS
Electron transport within solid targets, irradiated by a high-intensity short-pulse laser, has
been measured by imaging K α radiation from high-Z layers (Cu, Ti) buried in low-Z (CH, Al) …

Effect of laser intensity on fast-electron-beam divergence in solid-density plasmas

JS Green, VM Ovchinnikov, RG Evans, KU Akli… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Metal foil targets were irradiated with 1 μ m wavelength (λ) laser pulses of 5 ps duration and
focused intensities (I) of up to 4× 10 19 W cm-2, giving values of both I λ 2 and pulse …

Data-driven discovery of reduced plasma physics models from fully kinetic simulations

EP Alves, F Fiuza - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
At the core of some of the most important problems in plasma physics—from controlled
nuclear fusion to the acceleration of cosmic rays—is the challenge to describe nonlinear …