A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the
development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and …

Laser plasma-based particle accelerators attract great interest in fields where conventional
accelerators reach limits based on size, cost or beam parameters. Despite the fact that …

For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

In this study, we employ the bilinear method to construct N th-order solutions for a nonlinear
(3+ 1)-dimensional shallow water equation. Subsequently, we delve into a comprehensive …

Compact and affordable ion accelerators based on laser-produced plasmas have potential
applications in many fields of science and medicine. However, the requirement of producing …

The past few years have seen remarkable progress in the development of laser-based
particle accelerators. The ability to produce ultrabright beams of multi-megaelectronvolt …

A new technique is described for the isochoric heating (ie, heating at constant volume) of
matter to high energy-density plasma states (<? format?>><? format?> 10 5 J/g) on a …