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Thermal Weibel instability induced magnetic fields co-exist with linear wakes in laser-ionized plasmas
Yipeng Wu, Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair +12
When a moderately intense, few-picoseconds long laser pulse ionizes gas to produce an underdense plasma column, a linear relativistic plasma wave or wake can be excited by the self…
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…
Spectral modification of shock accelerated ions using hydrodynamically shaped gas target
O. Tresca, N. P. Dover, N. Cook +5
We report on reproducible shock acceleration from irradiation of a m CO laser on optically shaped H and He gas targets. A low energy laser prepulse ($I\lesssim10…
Optical probing of shocks driven into overdense plasmas by laser hole-boring
N. P. Dover, C. A. J. Palmer, M. Babzien +11
Observations of the interaction of an intense λ0 \approx 10 μm laser pulse with near-critical overdense plasmas (ne = 1.8 - 3 nc) are presented. For the first time, transverse opti…
Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock
C. A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, I. Pogorelsky +8
High energy ion beams (> MeV) generated by intense laser pulses promise to be viable alternatives to conventional ion beam sources due to their unique properties such as high charg…