collaborators

5 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Plasma Flow Generation and Particle Acceleration from Expanding Magnetic Bubbles

Yang Zhang, Brandon K. Russell, Geoffrey Pomraning +9

Impulsive plasma dynamics in the laboratory are often driven by rising electric currents, yet their quantitative plasma response has not been well established. By means of fully ki…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Time-Resolved Interferometric Measurements of Plasma Density Evolution in Laser-Driven Capacitor-Coil Targets

Yang Zhang, Ryo Omura, Rinya Akematsu +17

Laser-driven capacitor-coil targets provide a compact platform for generating strong magnetic fields and are widely used in magnetized high-energy-density plasma experiments. In ad…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Record Magnetic Field Generation by Short-Pulse Laser-Driven Capacitor-Coil Targets

Lan Gao, Yang Zhang, Hantao Ji +6

Magnetic fields generated by capacitor-coil targets driven by intense short-pulse lasers have been characterized using ultrafast proton radiography. A 1-kJ, 15-ps laser at a center…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Diagnosing electric and magnetic fields in laser-driven coil targets

Yang Zhang, Lan Gao, Hantao Ji +6

Laser-driven capacitor coils are widely used to generate intense magnetic fields for various applications in high-energy-density physics research. Accurate measurement of the magne…

physics.plasm-ph2025

The CHIMERAS Project: Design Framework for the Collisionless HIgh-beta Magnetized Experiment Researching Astrophysical Systems

S. Dorfman, S. Bose, E. Lichko +11

From the near-Earth solar wind to the intracluster medium of galaxy clusters, collisionless, high-beta, magnetized plasmas pervade our universe. Energy and momentum transport from…