A review of the dense Z-pinch

MG Haines - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The Z-pinch, perhaps the oldest subject in plasma physics, has achieved a remarkable
renaissance in recent years, following a few decades of neglect due to its basically unstable …

High-order harmonics from laser-irradiated plasma surfaces

U Teubner, P Gibbon - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
The investigation of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of femtosecond laser pulses by
means of laser-produced plasmas is surveyed. This kind of harmonic generation is an …

Kilotesla magnetic field due to a capacitor-coil target driven by high power laser

S Fujioka, Z Zhang, K Ishihara, K Shigemori… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Laboratory generation of strong magnetic fields opens new frontiers in plasma and beam
physics, astro-and solar-physics, materials science and atomic and molecular physics …

Record indoor magnetic field of 1200 T generated by electromagnetic flux-compression

D Nakamura, A Ikeda, H Sawabe… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A peak field of 1200 T was generated by the electromagnetic flux-compression (EMFC)
technique with a newly developed megagauss generator system. Magnetic fields closely up …

Theory of high-order harmonic generation in relativistic laser interaction with overdense plasma

T Baeva, S Gordienko, A Pukhov - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
High-order harmonic generation due to the interaction of a short ultrarelativistic laser pulse
with overdense plasma is studied analytically and numerically. On the basis of the …

Measuring and Fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas with Monoenergetic Proton Radiography

CK Li, FH Séguin, JA Frenje, JR Rygg, RD Petrasso… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Electromagnetic (E/B) fields generated by the interaction with plasmas of long-pulse, low-
intensity laser beams relevant to inertial confinement fusion have been measured for the first …

Hot-electron temperature and laser-light absorption in fast ignition

MG Haines, MS Wei, FN Beg, RB Stephens - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
Experimental data [FN Beg, Phys. Plasmas 4, 447 (1997) PHPAEN 1070-664X
10.1063/1.872103] indicate that for intense short-pulse laser-solid interactions at intensities …

Laser ion acceleration for hadron therapy

SV Bulanov, JJ Wilkens, TZ Esirkepov, G Korn… - Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Formation and dynamics of coherent structures involving phase-space vortices in plasmas

B Eliasson, PK Shukla - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive review of recent theoretical and numerical studies of the
formation and dynamics of electron and ion holes in a collisionless plasma. The electron …

Direct observation of turbulent magnetic fields in hot, dense laser produced plasmas

S Mondal, V Narayanan, WJ Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Turbulence in fluids is a ubiquitous, fascinating, and complex natural phenomenon that is
not yet fully understood. Unraveling turbulence in high density, high temperature plasmas is …