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Characterization and automated optimization of laser-driven proton beams from converging liquid sheet jet targets
G. D. Glenn, F. Treffert, H. Ahmed +31
Compact, stable, and versatile laser-driven ion sources hold great promise for applications ranging from medicine to materials science and fundamental physics. While single-shot so…
Statistical theory of the broadband two-plasmon decay instability
Rusko T. Ruskov, Robert Bingham, Luis O. Silva +4
There is renewed interest in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion, following the milestone December 2022 3.15 MJ ignition result on the National Ignition Facility. A key obstac…
Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams
C. D. Arrowsmith, P. Simon, P. Bilbao +26
Relativistic electron-positron plasmas are ubiquitous in extreme astrophysical environments such as black holes and neutron star magnetospheres, where accretion-powered jets and pu…
Divertor shaping with neutral baffling as a solution to the tokamak power exhaust challenge
K. Verhaegh, J. R. Harrison, D. Moulton +20
Exhausting power from the hot fusion core to the plasma-facing components is one of the biggest challenges in fusion energy. The MAST Upgrade tokamak uniquely integrates strong con…
Plasma dynamics at the Schwinger limit and beyond
Gert Brodin, Haidar Al-Naseri, Jens Zamanian +2
Strong field physics close to or above the Schwinger limit are typically studied with vacuum as initial condition, or by considering test particle dynamics. However, with a plasma…
High-charge 10 GeV electron acceleration in a 10 cm nanoparticle-assisted hybrid wakefield accelerator
Constantin Aniculaesei, Thanh Ha, Samuel Yoffe +23
In an electron wakefield accelerator, an intense laser pulse or charged particle beam excites plasma waves. Under proper conditions, electrons from the background plasma are trappe…
Control of electron beam polarization in the bubble regime of laser-wakefield acceleration
H. C. Fan, X. Y. Liu, X. F. Li +9
Electron beam polarization in the bubble regime of the interaction between a high-intensity laser and a longitudinally pre-polarized plasma is investigated by means of the Thomas-B…
Insensitivity of a turbulent laser-plasma dynamo to initial conditions
A. F. A. Bott, L. Chen, P. Tzeferacos +18
It has recently been demonstrated experimentally that a turbulent plasma created by the collision of two inhomogeneous, asymmetric, weakly magnetised laser-produced plasma jets can…
Absolute keV X-ray yield and conversion efficiency in over dense Si petawatt laser plasma
Sergey N. Ryazantsev, Artem S. Martynenko, Maksim V. Sedov +15
Laser-produced plasmas are bright, short sources of X-rays often used for time-resolved imaging and spectroscopy. Absolute measurement requires accurate knowledge of laser-to-x-ray…
The role of plasma-molecule interactions on power and particle balance during detachment on the TCV tokamak
Kevin Verhaegh, Bruce Lipschultz, James Harrison +14
This paper shows experimental results from the TCV tokamak that indicate plasma-molecule interactions involving and possibly play an important role as sinks of energy…
Strong suppression of heat conduction in a laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster turbulent plasmas
J. Meinecke, P. Tzeferacos, J. S. Ross +32
Galaxy clusters are filled with hot, diffuse X-ray emitting plasma, with a stochastically tangled magnetic field whose energy is close to equipartition with the energy of the turbu…
Bandwidth effects in stimulated Brillouin scattering driven by partially incoherent light
B. Brandão, J. E. Santos, R. M. G. M. Trines +2
A generalized Wigner-Moyal statistical theory of radiation is used to obtain a general dispersion relation for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) driven by a broadband radiation…
Polarized proton acceleration in ultra-intense laser interaction with near critical density plasmas
X. F. Li, P. Gibbon, A. Hützen +4
The production of polarized proton beams with multi-GeV energies in ultra-intense laser interaction with targets is studied with three-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulations. A n…
Spin and polarization effects on the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-plasma interaction
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yan-Fei Li +5
The spin effect of electrons/positrons (/) and polarization effect of photons are investigated in the interaction of two counter-propagating linearly polarized 10-PW-…
Generating ultra-dense pair beams using 400 GeV/c protons
C. D. Arrowsmith, N. Shukla, N. Charitonidis +14
A previously unexplored experimental scheme is presented for generating low-divergence, ultra-dense, relativistic, electron-positron beams using 400 GeV/c protons available at faci…
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition
E. Boella, R. Bingham, R. A. Cairns +6
Two-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to explore collisionless shock acceleration in the corona plasma surrounding the compressed core of an inertial confinement fu…
Characterisation of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Efficiency with Octave Spanning Near-IR Spectrum Measurements
M. J. V. Streeter, Y. Ma, B. Kettle +25
We report on experimental measurements of energy transfer efficiencies in a GeV-class laser wakefield accelerator. Both the transfer of energy from the laser to the plasma wakefiel…
Bremsstrahlung emission and plasma characterization driven by moderately relativistic laser-plasma interactions
Sushil Singh, Chris D. Armstrong, Ning Kang +22
Relativistic electrons generated by the interaction of petawatt-class short laser pulses with solid targets can be used to generate bright X-rays via bremsstrahlung. The efficiency…
A novel hydrogenic spectroscopic technique for inferring the role of plasma-molecule interaction on power and particle balance during detached conditions
K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, C Bowman +13
Detachment, an important mechanism for reducing target heat deposition, is achieved through reductions in power, particle and momentum; which are induced through plasma-atom and pl…
A study of the influence of plasma-molecule interactions on particle balance during detachment
K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, J R Harrison +9
In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on the target ion flux decrease during divertor detachment achieved through a core den…
Time-resolved fast turbulent dynamo in a laser plasma
A. F. A. Bott, P. Tzeferacos, L. Chen +25
Understanding magnetic-field generation and amplification in turbulent plasma is essential to account for observations of magnetic fields in the universe. A theoretical framework a…
Growth, saturation and collapse of laser-driven plasma density gratings
H. H. Ma, S. M. Weng, P. Li +6
The plasma density grating induced by intersecting intense laser pulses can be utilized as an optical compressors, polarizers, waveplates and photonic crystals for the manipulation…
Stimulated Raman scattering in the degenerate regime
Yao Zhao, Suming Weng, Zhengming Sheng +1
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in plasma in the degenerate regime is studied theoretically and numerically. Different from normal SRS with the non-degenerate eigen electrostatic…
Guided propagation of extremely intense lasers in plasma via ion motion
Wei-Min Wang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Thomas Wilson +2
The upcoming petawatt laser facilities may deliver laser pulses with unprecedented intensity of , which can trigger various nonlinear quantum…