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Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio in Astrophysical Shocks
John C. Raymond, Parviz Ghavamian, Artem Bohdan +9
Collisionless shock waves in supernova remnants and the solar wind heat electrons less effectively than they heat ions, as is predicted by kinetic simulations. However, the values…
On the control of electron heating for optimal laser radiation pressure ion acceleration
H. -G. Jason Chou, Anna Grassi, Siegfried H. Glenzer +1
We study the onset of electron heating in intense laser-solid interactions and its impact on the spectral quality of radiation pressure accelerated ions in both hole boring and lig…
Report of Snowmass 21 Accelerator Frontier Topical Group 6 on Advanced Accelerators
C. Geddes, M. Hogan, P. Musumeci +1
The Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier topical group \# 6 on Advanced Accelerator Concepts, covers new R\&D concepts for particle acceleration, generation, and focusing. Based on c…
Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions
A. Matheron, P. San Miguel Claveria, R. Ariniello +21
Ongoing progress in laser and accelerator technology opens new possibilities in high-field science, notably to investigate the largely unexplored strong-field quantum electrodynami…
Radiation pressure acceleration of high-quality ion beams using ultrashort laser pulses
H. -G. Jason Chou, Anna Grassi, Siegfried H. Glenzer +1
The generation of compact, high-energy ion beams is one of the most promising applications of intense laser-matter interactions, but the control of the beam spectral quality remain…
Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier White Paper: Near Term Applications driven by Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Claudio Emma, Jeroen van Tilborg, Félicie Albert +8
While the long-term vision of the advanced accelerator community is aimed at addressing the challenges of future collider technology, it is critical that the community takes advant…
Channeling Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures and Studies of Solid Plasmas: New Opportunities
Max F. Gilljohann, Yuliia Mankovska, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +16
Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has shown illustrious progress and resulted in an impressive demonstration of tens of GeV particle acceleration in meter-long single structures…
The role of plasma instabilities in relativistic radiation mediated shocks: stability analysis and particle-in-cell simulations
Arno Vanthieghem, Jens F. Mahlmann, Amir Levinson +3
Relativistic radiation mediated shocks (RRMS) likely form in prodigious cosmic explosions. The structure and emission of such shocks is regulated by copious production of electron-…
Magnetic field amplification by a plasma cavitation instability in relativistic shock precursors
J. Ryan Peterson, Siegfried Glenzer, Frederico Fiuza
Plasma streaming instabilities play an important role in magnetic field amplification and particle acceleration in relativistic shocks and their environments. However, in the far s…
Extended particle absorber for efficient modeling of intense laser-solid interactions
Kyle G. Miller, Joshua May, Frederico Fiuza +1
An extended thermal particle boundary condition is devised to more efficiently and accurately model laser-plasma interactions in overdense plasmas. Particle-in-cell simulations of…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
P. San Miguel Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson +28
An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to micro-instabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability…
Efficient generation of turbulent collisionless shocks in laser-ablated counter-streaming plasmas
Anna Grassi, Frederico Fiuza
Laser-ablated high-energy-density (HED) plasmas offer a promising route to study astrophysically relevant processes underlying collisionless shock formation, magnetic field amplifi…
MP3 White Paper 2021 -- Research Opportunities Enabled by Co-locating Multi-Petawatt Lasers with Dense Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beams
Sebastian Meuren, David A. Reis, Roger Blandford +11
Novel emergent phenomena are expected to occur under conditions exceeding the QED critical electric field, where the vacuum becomes unstable to electron-positron pair production. T…
Magnetic field amplification by a nonlinear electron streaming instability
J. R. Peterson, S. Glenzer, F. Fiuza
Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenario…
Numerical heating in particle-in-cell simulations with Monte Carlo binary collisions
E. Paulo Alves, Warren B. Mori, Frederico Fiuza
The binary Monte Carlo (MC) collision algorithm is a standard and robust method to include binary Coulomb collision effects in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasmas. Here,…
Nonthermal electron and ion acceleration by magnetic reconnection in large laser-driven plasmas
Samuel Totorica, Masahiro Hoshino, Tom Abel +1
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that is thought to play a key role in the production of nonthermal particles associated with explosive phenomena in space phys…
Laser-driven neutron source from high temperature D-D fusion reactions
Xuejing Jiao, C. Curry, M. Gauthier +13
We report a laser-driven neutron source with high yield (/J) and high peak flux (/cm/s) derived from high-temperature deuteron-deuteron fusion reactions. The n…
Data-driven discovery of reduced plasma physics models from fully-kinetic simulations
E. Paulo Alves, Frederico Fiuza
At the core of some of the most important problems in plasma physics -- from controlled nuclear fusion to the acceleration of cosmic rays -- is the challenge to describe nonlinear,…
Extremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions
Archana Sampath, Xavier Davoine, Sébastien Corde +26
Sources of high-energy photons have important applications in almost all areas of research. However, the photon flux and intensity of existing sources is strongly limited for photo…
Characterizing filamentary magnetic structures in counter-streaming plasmas by Fourier analysis of proton images
Joseph Levesque, Carolyn Kuranz, Timothy Handy +2
Proton imaging is a powerful tool for probing electromagnetic fields in a plasma, providing a path-integrated map of the field topology. However, in cases where the field structure…
Nonthermal ion acceleration by the kink instability in nonrelativistic jets
E. Paulo Alves, Jonathan Zrake, Frederico Fiuza
We investigate the self-consistent particle acceleration physics associated with the development of the kink instability (KI) in nonrelativistic, electron-ion plasma jets. Using 3D…
Extreme Plasma Astrophysics
D. Uzdensky, M. Begelman, A. Beloborodov +22
This is a science white paper submitted to the Astro-2020 and Plasma-2020 Decadal Surveys. The paper describes the present status and emerging opportunities in Extreme Plasma Astro…
A channel for very high density matter-antimatter pair-jet production by intense laser-pulses
D. Del Sorbo, L. Antonelli, P. J. Davies +6
The mechanism of laser-driven relativistic pair-jet production qualitatively changes as laser intensity exceeds W/cm because of the appearance of las…
Collisionless shock acceleration of narrow energy spread ion beams from mixed species plasmas using 1 m lasers
A. Pak, S. Kerr, N. Lemos +15
Collisionless shock acceleration of protons and C ions has been achieved by the interaction of a 10 W/cm, 1 m laser with a near-critical density plasma. Ablati…