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XFEL Imaging Techniques for High Energy Density and Inertial Fusion Energy Research at HED-HiBEF
Alejandro Laso Garcia, Mikhail Mishchenko, Victorien Bouffetier +53
The imaging platform developed at the High Energy Density - Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HiBEF) instrument at the European XFEL and its applications to…
Enhancing Neutron Measurement Accuracy with Bubble Detectors at Laser-Driven Neutron Sources
Stefan Scheuren, Maria Angeles Millán-Callado, Jonas Kohl +9
Bubble detectors are widely used to measure neutron flux from laser-driven sources employing a pitcher-catcher setup, due to their insensitivity to intense -ray backgrounds and…
Probing ultrafast heating and ionization dynamics in solid density plasmas with time-resolved resonant X-ray absorption and emission
Lingen Huang, Mikhail Mishchenko, Michal Šmíd +34
Heating and ionization are among the most fundamental processes in relativistic laser--solid interactions; however, their spatiotemporal evolution remains challenging to capture ex…
Scaling of thin wire cylindrical compression after 100 fs Joule surface heating with material, diameter and laser energy
L. Yang, M. -L. Herbert, C. Bähtz +32
We present the first systematic experimental validation of return-current-driven implosion scaling in micrometer-sized wires irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses. Employing XFEL-…
Single-event neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy with a petawatt-laser-driven neutron source
M. A. Millán-Callado, S. Scheuren, A. Alejo +22
Fast neutron-induced nuclear reactions are crucial for advancing our understanding of fundamental nuclear processes, stellar nucleosynthesis, and applications, including reactor sa…
Demonstration of full-scale spatio-temporal diagnostics of solid-density plasmas driven by an ultra-short relativistic laser pulse using an X-ray free-electron laser
Lingen Huang, Michal Šmíd, Long Yang +42
Understanding the complex plasma dynamics in ultra-intense relativistic laser-solid interactions is of fundamental importance to the applications of laser plasma-based particle acc…
Dynamic convergent shock compression initiated by return current in high-intensity laser solid interactions
Long Yang, Martin Rehwald, Thomas Kluge +6
We investigate the dynamics of convergent shock compression in the solid wire targets irradiated by an ultra-fast relativistic laser pulse. Our Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations a…
Time-resolved optical shadowgraphy of solid hydrogen jets as a testbed to benchmark particle-in-cell simulations
Long Yang, Lingen Huang, Stefan Assenbaum +11
Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are a superior tool to model kinetics-dominated plasmas in relativistic and ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions (dimensionless vectorpoten…
Visualizing Plasmons and Ultrafast Kinetic Instabilities in Laser-Driven Solids using X-ray Scattering
Paweł Ordyna, Carsten Bähtz, Erik Brambrink +27
Ultra-intense lasers that ionize and accelerate electrons in solids to near the speed of light can lead to kinetic instabilities that alter the laser absorption and subsequent elec…
Probing the dynamics of solid density micro-wire targets after ultra-intense laser irradiation using a free-electron laser
Thomas Kluge, Michael Bussmann, Eric Galtier +22
In this paper, we present an experiment that explores the plasma dynamics of a 7 micron diameter carbon wire after being irradiated with a near-relativistic-intensity short pulse l…
Optimized laser ion acceleration at the relativistic critical density surface
Ilja Göthel, Constantin Bernert, Michael Bussmann +8
In the effort of achieving high-energetic ion beams from the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with a plasma, volumetric acceleration mechanisms beyond Target Normal Sheath Ac…
A Survey of Spatio-Temporal Couplings throughout High-Power Ultrashort Lasers
Antoine Jeandet, Spencer W. Jolly, Antonin Borot +19
The investigation of spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) of broadband light beams is becoming a key topic for the optimization as well as applications of ultrashort laser systems. Thi…
Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment
Halina Abramowicz, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Massimo Altarelli +88
This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the Europe…
Probing ultrafast laser plasma processes inside solids with resonant small-angle X-ray scattering
Lennart Gaus, Lothar Bischoff, Michael Bussmann +33
Extreme states of matter exist throughout the universe e.g. inside planetary cores, stars or astrophysical jets. Such conditions are generated in the laboratory in the interaction…
Radiative characterization of supersonic jets and shocks in a laser-plasma experiment
H Bohlin, F-E Brack, M Cervenak +21
The interaction of supersonic laser-generated plasma jets with a secondary gas target was studied experimentally. The plasma parameters of the jet, and the resulting shock, were ch…
Laser-plasma proton acceleration with a combined gas-foil target
Dan Levy, Constantin Bernert, Martin Rehwald +10
Laser-plasma proton acceleration was investigated in the Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) regime using a novel gas-foil target. The target is designed for reaching higher l…
Proton beam quality enhancement by spectral phase control of a PW-class laser system
T. Ziegler, D. Albach, C. Bernert +24
We report on experimental investigations of proton acceleration from solid foils irradiated with PW-class laser-pulses, where highest proton cut-off energies were achieved for temp…
Spectral and spatial shaping of laser-driven proton beams using a pulsed high-field magnet beamline
Florian-Emanuel Brack, Florian Kroll, Lennart Gaus +17
Intense laser-driven proton pulses, inherently broadband and highly divergent, pose a challenge to established beamline concepts on the path to application-adapted irradiation fiel…
On-Shot Characterization of Single Plasma Mirror Temporal Contrast Improvement
Lieselotte Obst, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Stefan Bock +12
We report on the setup and commissioning of a compact recollimating single plasma mirror for temporal contrast enhancement at the Draco 150 TW laser during laser-proton acceleratio…
First demonstration of multi-MeV proton acceleration from a cryogenic hydrogen ribbon target
Stephan D. Kraft, Lieselotte Obst, Josefine Metzkes-Ng +9
We show efficient laser driven proton acceleration up to 14MeV from a 50 m thick cryogenic hydrogen ribbon. Pulses of the short pulse laser ELFIE at LULI with a pulse length of…
I-BEAT: New ultrasonic method for single bunch measurement of ion energy distribution
Daniel Haffa, Rong Yang, Jianhui Bin +31
The shape of a wave carries all information about the spatial and temporal structure of its source, given that the medium and its properties are known. Most modern imaging methods…
Observation of ultrafast solid-density plasma dynamics using femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser
Thomas Kluge, Melanie Rödel, Josefine Metzkes +23
The complex physics of the interaction between short pulse high intensity lasers and solids is so far hardly accessible by experiments. As a result of missing experimental capabili…
Relativistic electron streaming instabilities modulate proton beams accelerated in laser-plasma interactions
S. Göde, C. Rödel, K. Zeil +16
We report experimental evidence that multi-MeV protons accelerated in relativistic laser-plasma interactions are modulated by strong filamentary electromagnetic fields. Modulations…
Two surface plasmon decay of plasma oscillations
Thomas Kluge, Josefine Metzkes, Karl Zeil +3
The interaction of ultra-intense lasers with solid foils can be used to accelerate ions to high energies well exceeding 60 MeV. The non-linear relativistic motion of electrons in t…