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 …

Collisionless shocks, that is shocks mediated by electromagnetic processes, are customary
in space physics and in astrophysics. They are to be found in a great variety of objects and …

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 …

Astrophysical collisionless shocks are among the most powerful particle accelerators in the
Universe. Generated by violent interactions of supersonic plasma flows with the interstellar …

Filamentation due to the growth of a Weibel-type instability was observed in the interaction
of a pair of counterstreaming, ablatively driven plasma flows, in a supersonic, collisionless …

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

The matter in extreme conditions end station at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a
new tool enabling accurate pump–probe measurements for studying the physical properties …

The ways toward modeling of astrophysical processes and extreme field regimes with super-
power lasers are discussed. The main attention is paid to the problem of limited similarity in …

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 …

This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …