7 papers
Dual-pulse micronozzle acceleration of sub-GeV-class protons
D. Pan, M. Murakami
The paper proposes a dual‑pulse micronozzle scheme that phase‑locks laser‑driven protons to a quasistatic axial electric field, achieving sub‑GeV proton energies with about 20% las…
Microbubble implosions in finite hollow spheres
M. A. H. Zosa, M. Murakami
Microbubble implosion (MBI) is a recently proposed novel mechanism with many interesting and exciting potential applications. MBI predicts that the inner layers of a spherical targ…
Self-similar multishock implosions for ultrahigh compression of matter
M. Murakami
We present a class of self-similar solutions describing ultrahigh compression of a uniform-density target by spherically converging, stacked shock waves. Extending the classical Gu…
Progress in relativistic laser-plasma interaction with kilotesla-level applied magnetic fields
K. Weichman, A. P. L. Robinson, M. Murakami +5
We report on progress in the understanding of the effects of kilotesla-level applied magnetic fields on relativistic laser-plasma interactions. Ongoing advances in magnetic-field-g…
Laser-driven electrodynamic implosion of fast ions in a thin shell
S. Yu. Guskov, Ph. Korneev, M. Murakami
Collision of laser-driven subrelativistic high density ion flows provides a way to create extremely compressed ion conglomerates and study their properties. This paper presents a t…
Generation of giga-electron-volt proton beams by micronozzle acceleration
M. Murakami, D. Balusu, S. Maruyama +2
Our proposed ion acceleration scheme, micronozzle acceleration (MNA), generates proton beams with extremely high kinetic energies on the giga-electron-volt (GeV) order. The underly…