2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2025
Transversely pumped laser driven particle accelerator
Tanner Nutting, Nicholas Ernst, Alexander G. R. Thomas +1
We present a new acceleration scheme capable of accelerating electrons and ions in an underdense plasma. Transversely Pumped Acceleration (TPA) uses multiple arrays of counter-prop…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Orbital angular momentum enhanced laser absorption and neutron generation
Nicholas Peskosky, Nicholas Ernst, Miloš Burger +5
We experimentally demonstrate enhanced absorption of near relativistic optical vortex beams in plasmas to generate a record fast-neutron yield of …