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Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling Turbulence in Supernovae
Platon I. Karpov, Chengkun Huang, Iskandar Sitdikov +3
Turbulence plays an important role in astrophysical phenomena, including core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), but current simulations must rely on subgrid models since direct numerical…
Mapping the self-generated magnetic fields due to thermal Weibel instability
Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +15
Weibel-type instability can self-generate and amplify magnetic fields in both space and laboratory plasmas with temperature anisotropy. The electron Weibel instability has generall…
Electron Weibel instability induced magnetic fields in optical-field ionized plasmas
Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +14
Generation and amplification of magnetic fields in plasmas is a long-standing topic that is of great interest to both plasma and space physics. The electron Weibel instability is a…
Ionization induced plasma grating and its applications in strong-field ionization measurements
Chaojie Zhang, Zan Nie, Yipeng Wu +4
An ionization-induced plasma grating can be formed by spatially selective ionization of gases by the interference of two intersecting ultra-short laser pulses. The density modulati…
Measurements of the growth and saturation of electron Weibel instability in optical-field ionized plasmas
Chaojie Zhang, Jianfei Hua, Yipeng Wu +11
The temporal evolution of the magnetic field associated with electron thermal Weibel instability in optical-field ionized plasmas is measured using ultrashort (1.8 ps), relativisti…
Conservation of angular momentum in second harmonic generation from under-dense plasmas
C. K. Huang, C. J. Zhang, Z. Nie +3
Spin and orbital angular momentum of an optical beam are two independent parameters that exhibit distinct effects on mechanical objects. However, when laser beams with angular mome…
Fermi-type particle acceleration from magnetic reconnection at the termination shock of a relativistic striped wind
Yingchao Lu, Fan Guo, Patrick Kilian +3
An oblique-rotating pulsar generates a relativistic striped wind in a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The termination shock of the PWN compresses the Poynting-flux-dominated flow and dri…
Studying particle acceleration from driven magnetic reconnection at the termination shock of a relativistic striped wind using particle-in-cell simulations
Yingchao Lu, Fan Guo, Patrick Kilian +3
A rotating pulsar creates a surrounding pulsar wind nebula (PWN) by steadily releasing an energetic wind into the interior of the expanding shockwave of supernova remnant or inters…
Particle resonances and trapping of direct laser acceleration in a laser-plasma channel
F. -Y. Li, P. K. Singh, S. Palaniyappan +1
As one of the leading acceleration mechanisms in laser-driven underdense plasmas, direct laser acceleration (DLA) is capable of producing high-energy-density electron beams in a pl…
An \mathcal{O}(N) Maxwell solver with improved numerical dispersion properties
Yingchao Lu, Chengkun Huang, Patrick Kilian +3
A Maxwell solver derived from finite element method with \mathcal{O}(N) computing cost is developed to improve the numerical dispersion properties in relativistic particle-in-cell…
Theory of electron transport and emission from a semiconductor nanotip
Andrei Piryatinski, Chengkun Huang, Thomas J. T. Kwan
An effective mass based model accounting for the conduction band quantization in a high aspect ratio semiconductor nanotip is developed to describe injected electron transport and…
Finite grid instability and spectral fidelity of the electrostatic Particle-In-Cell algorithm
C. -K. Huang, Y. Zeng, Y. Wang +3
The origin of the Finite Grid Instability (FGI) is studied by resolving the dynamics in the 1D electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) model in spectral domain at the single particle…
Efficient quasi-monoenergetic ion beams up to 18 MeV/nucleon via self-generated plasma fields in relativistic laser plasmas
Sasi Palaniyappan, Chengkun Huang, Donald C. Gautier +5
Table-top laser-plasma ion accelerators seldom achieve narrow energy spreads, and never without serious compromises in efficiency, particle yield, etc. Using massive computer simul…
Self-similar structure and experimental signatures of suprathermal ion distribution in inertial confinement fusion implosions
Grigory Kagan, D. Svyatskiy, H. G. Rinderknecht +4
The distribution function of suprathermal ions is found to be self-similar under conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion hot-spots. By utilizing this feature, interferen…
On the Numerical Dispersion of Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Code : Finite Grid Instability
M. D. Meyers, C. -K. Huang, Y. Zeng +2
The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method is widely used in relativistic particle beam and laser plasma modeling. However, the PIC method exhibits numerical instabilities that can render u…
Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics
AWAKE Collaboration, R. Assmann, R. Bingham +47
New acceleration technology is mandatory for the future elucidation of fundamental particles and their interactions. A promising approach is to exploit the properties of plasmas. P…