4 papers
Controlling -photon production with additively manufactured microstructured targets
Joshua Luoma, Andreas Kemp, Thomas G. White +3
Nonlinear inverse Compton scattering (NICS) in high-density targets offers a promising route for generating high flux, broadband sources of MeV -photons which are important for…
Efficient laser ion acceleration in near-critical density plasmas in the picosecond pulse regime
Joshua Luoma, Andreas Kemp, Andrew Longman +2
Kilojoule-class short-pulse (< 10 ps) lasers are excellent tools for generating relativistic ion beams, but achieving high laser-to-ion conversion efficiency remains an open challe…
Fast-ignition design transport studies: realistic electron source, integrated PIC-hydrodynamics, imposed magnetic fields
D. J. Strozzi, M. Tabak, D. J. Larson +5
Transport modeling of idealized, cone-guided fast ignition targets indicates the severe challenge posed by fast-electron source divergence. The hybrid particle-in-cell [PIC] code Z…
Focusing of Intense Subpicosecond Laser Pulses in Wedge Targets
M. C. Levy, A. J. Kemp, S. C. Wilks +2
Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations characterizing the interaction of ultraintense short pulse lasers in the range 10^{18} \leq I \leq 10^{20} W/cm^{2} with converging tar…