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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…
Beam Distortion Effects upon focusing an ultrashort Petawatt Laser Pulse to greater than 10 W/cm
Ganesh Tiwari, Erhard Gaul, Mikael Martinez +15
When an ultrashort laser pulse is tightly focused to a size approaching its central wavelength, the properties of the focused spot diverge from the diffraction limited case. Here w…
En-route to the fission-fusion reaction mechanism: a status update on laser-driven heavy ion acceleration
F. H. Lindner, E. McCary, X. Jiao +6
The fission-fusion reaction mechanism was proposed in order to generate extremely neutron-rich nuclei close to the waiting point N = 126 of the rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesi…
Non-Maxwellian electron distributions resulting from direct laser acceleration in near-critical plasmas
T. Toncian, C. Wang, E. McCary +17
The irradiation of few nm thick targets by a finite-contrast high-intensity short-pulse laser results in a strong pre-expansion of these targets at the arrival time of the main pul…