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Advances in laser-plasma interactions using intense vortex laser beams
Yin Shi, Xiaomei Zhang, Alexey Arefiev +1
Low-intensity light beams carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), commonly known as vortex beams, have garnered significant attention due to promising applications in areas rangin…
Suppression of stimulated Raman scattering by angularly incoherent light, towards a laser system of incoherence in all dimensions of time, space, and angle
Yi Guo, Xiaomei Zhang, Dirui Xu +3
Laser-plasma instability (LPI) is one of the main obstacles in laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) for achieving predictable and reproducible fusion at high gain. For th…
Vortex Breit-Wheeler Electron-positron pair creation via vortex gamma-photons
Zhigang Bu, Liangliang Ji, Shaohu Lei +3
Particles in quantum vortex states (QVS) carrying definite orbital angular momenta (OAM) brings new perspectives in various fundamental interaction processes. When unique propertie…
Axionlike-particle generation by laser-plasma interaction
Shan Huang, Baifei Shen, Zhigang Bu +3
The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but s…
Spin polarized proton beam generation from gas-jet targets by intense laser pulses
Luling Jin, Meng Wen, Xiaomei Zhang +4
A method of generating spin polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multi-petawatt laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing pre-polarized mon…
Spin-to-Orbital Conversion of Angular Momentum in Harmonic Generation Driven by Intense Circularly Polarized Beam
Shasha Li, Xiaomei Zhang, Weifeng Gong +2
A new physical mechanism to achieve spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion based on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized (CP) laser beam with a plane foil is pre…
Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes
Xiaomei Zhang, Toshiki Tajima, Deano Farinella +7
Though wakefield acceleration in crystal channels has been previously proposed, x-ray wakefield acceleration has only recently become a realistic possibility since the invention of…
Ultra-High Gradient Channeling Acceleration in Nanostructures: Design/Progress of Proof-of-Concept (POC) Experiments
Y. M. Shin, A. Green, A. H. Lumpkin +8
This paper describes simulation analyses on beam and laser (X-ray)-driven accelerations in effective nanotube models obtained from Vsim and EPOCH codes. Experimental setups to dete…
Generation of Gamma-ray Beam with Orbital Angular Momentum in the QED Regime
Chen Liu, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang +8
We propose a scheme to generate gamma-ray photons with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) and high energy simultaneously from laser-plasma interactions by irradiating a circularly p…
Generation of Ultra-intense Gamma-ray Train by QED Harmonics
Chen Liu, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang +10
When laser intensity exceeds 10^22W/cm^2, photons with energy above MeV can be generated from high-order harmonics process in the laser-plasma interaction. We find that under such…
Generation of Intense High-Order Vortex Harmonics
Xiaomei Zhang, Baifei Shen, Yin Shi +6
This paper presents the method for the first time to generate intense high-order optical vortices that carry orbital angular momentum in the extreme ultraviolet region. In three-di…
Proton Acceleration in Underdense Plasma by Ultraintense Laguerre-Gaussian Laser Pulse
Xiaomei Zhang, Baifei Shen, Lingang Zhang +5
Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation is used to investigate the witness proton acceleration in underdense plasma with a short intense Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser pulse. D…
Light fan driven by relativistic laser pulse
Yin Shi, Baifei Shen, Lingang Zhang +3
When a relativistic laser pulse with high photon density interacts with a specially tailored thin foil target, a strong torque is exerted on the resulting spiral-shaped foil plasma…
Hollow screw like drill in plasma using an intense Laguerre Gaussian laser
Wenpeng Wang, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang +3
With the development of ultra intense laser technology, MeV ions from the laser foil interaction have been obtained by different mechanisms, such as target normal sheath accelerati…
Scheme for proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration of positively charged particles in a hollow plasma channel
Longqing Yi, Baifei Shen, Konstantin Lotov +11
A new scheme for accelerating positively charged particles in a plasma wakefield accelerator is proposed. If the proton drive beam propagates in a hollow plasma channel, and the be…