By focusing petawatt peak power laser light to intensities up to 10 21 W cm− 2, highly
relativistic plasmas can now be studied. The force exerted by light pulses with this extreme …

As tabletop lasers continue to reach record levels of peak power, the interaction of light with
matter has crossed a new threshold, in which plasma electrons at the laser focus oscillate at …

The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasma as a source of high-energy ions for
the purpose of hadron beam therapy—an approach which is based on both theory and …

In this article we present the results of particle in cell (PIC) simulations of laser plasma
interaction for proton acceleration for radiation therapy treatments. We show that under …

Multi-MeV ion production from the interaction of a short laser pulse with a high-density
plasma, accompanied by an underdense preplasma, has been studied with a particle-in-cell …

We present an investigation of the total decay rate of the (ground state) Bc meson within the
framework of the relativistic constituent quark model formulated on the light-front (LF). The …

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 …

A short-laser-pulse driven ion flux is examined as a fast ignitor candidate for inertial
confinement fusion. Ion ranges in a hot precompressed fuel are studied. The ion energy and …

Electron acceleration by ultrahigh intensity lasers is studied by means of two-dimensional
planar particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the full divergence of the fast electron …

CR-39 film stacks are used to measure the energy and angular distribution of protons
emitted from the rear surface of ultra-intense laser illuminated plastic foils. The experiment …