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most citedMagnetized Fast Isochoric Laser Heating for Efficient Creation of Ultra-High-Energy-Density States

110 citations

14 papers

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 14 cited

Thermonuclear Fusion Triggered by Collapsing Standing Whistler Waves in Magnetized Overdense Plasmas

Takayoshi Sano, Shinsuke Fujioka, Yoshitaka Mori +2

Thermal fusion plasmas initiated by standing whistler waves are investigated numerically by two- and one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. When a standing whistler wave col…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 12 cited

Ultrafast Wave-Particle Energy Transfer in the Collapse of Standing Whistler Waves

Takayoshi Sano, Masayasu Hata, Daiki Kawahito +2

Efficient energy transfer from electromagnetic waves to ions has been demanded to control laboratory plasmas for various applications and could be useful to understand the nature o…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 44 cited

Peta-Pascal Pressure Driven by Fast Isochoric Heating with Multi-Picosecond Intense Laser Pulse

Kazuki Matsuo, Naoki Higashi, Natsumi Iwata +31

Fast isochoric laser heating is a scheme to heat a matter with relativistic-intensity ( 10 W/cm) laser pulse or X-ray free electron laser pulse. The fast isochoric la…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 110 cited

Magnetized Fast Isochoric Laser Heating for Efficient Creation of Ultra-High-Energy-Density States

Shohei Sakata, Seungho Lee, Tomoyuki Johzaki +36

The quest for the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition is a grand challenge, as exemplified by extraordinary large laser facilities. Fast isochoric heating of a pre-compresse…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 15 cited

Broadening of Cyclotron Resonance Conditions in the Relativistic Interaction of an Intense Laser with Overdense Plasmas

Takayoshi Sano, Yuki Tanaka, Natsumi Iwata +4

The interaction of dense plasmas with an intense laser under a strong external magnetic field has been investigated. When the cyclotron frequency for the ambient magnetic field is…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 36 cited

Burst intensification by singularity emitting radiation in multi-stream flows

A. S. Pirozhkov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, T. A. Pikuz +20

In various media the elementary components can emit traveling waves such as electromagnetic, gravitational or acoustic types. If these elementary emitters are synchronized, the res…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 4 cited

Stagnation of electron flow by a nonlinearly generated whistler wave

Toshihiro Taguchi, Thomas M. Antonsen, Kunioki Mima

Relativistic electron beam transport through a high-density, magnetized plasma is studied numerically and theoretically. An electron beam injected into a cold plasma excites Weibel…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 24 cited

Integrated simulation of magnetic-field-assist fast ignition laser fusion

T. Johzaki, H. Nagatomo, A. Sunahara +13

To enhance the core heating efficiency in fast ignition laser fusion, the concept of relativistic electron beam guiding by external magnetic fields was evaluated by integrated simu…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 41 cited

Control of Electron Beam Using Strong Magnetic Field for Efficient Core Heating in Fast Ignition

T. Johzaki, T. Taguchi, Y. Sentoku +6

For enhancing the core heating efficiency in electron-driven fast ignition, we proposed the fast electron beam guiding using externally applied longitudinal magnetic fields. Based…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 9 cited

Stabilization of Radiation Reaction with Vacuum Polarization

Keita Seto, Sen Zhang, James Koga +3

From the development of the electron theory by H. A. Lorentz in 1906, many authors have tried to reformulate this model. P. A. M. Dirac derived the relativistic-classical electron…

hep-ph2011★ 86 cited

On the design of experiments for the study of extreme field limits in the interaction of laser with ultrarelativistic electron beam

S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, Y. Hayashi +13

We propose the experiments on the collision of laser light and high intensity electromagnetic pulses generated by relativistic flying mirrors, with electron bunches produced by a c…

physics.plasm-ph2010★ 35 cited

X-ray harmonic comb from relativistic electron spikes

Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Masaki Kando, Timur Zh. Esirkepov +24

X-ray devices are far superior to optical ones for providing nanometre spatial and attosecond temporal resolutions. Such resolution is indispensable in biology, medicine, physics,…

physics.optics2009★ 34 cited

Spallative ablation of dielectrics by X-ray laser

N. A. Inogamov, V. V. Zhakhovsky, A. Ya. Faenov +15

Short laser pulse in wide range of wavelengths, from infrared to X-ray, disturbs electron-ion equilibrium and rises pressure in a heated layer. The case where pulse duration …

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 54 cited

Bow wave from ultra-intense electromagnetic pulses in plasmas

T. Zh. Esirkepov, Y. Kato, S. V. Bulanov

We show a new effect of the bow wave excitation by an intense short laser pulse propagating in underdense plasma. Due to spreading of the laser pulse energy in transverse direction…