Thanks to a rapid progress of high-power lasers since the birth of laser by TH Maiman in
1960, intense lasers have been developed mainly for studying the scientific feasibility of …

The National Diagnostic Working Group (NDWG) has led the effort to fully exploit the major
inertial confinement fusion/high-energy density facilities in the US with the best available …

The European XFEL delivers up to 27000 intense (> 1012 photons) pulses per second, of
ultrashort (≤ 50 fs) and transversely coherent X-ray radiation, at a maximum repetition rate …

Turbulent magnetic reconnection is believed to occur in astrophysical plasmas, and it has
been suggested to be a trigger of solar flares. It often occurs in long stretched and …

Collisionless shock waves in supernova remnants and the solar wind heat electrons less
effectively than they heat ions, as is predicted by kinetic simulations. However, the values of …

At the core of some of the most important problems in plasma physics—from controlled
nuclear fusion to the acceleration of cosmic rays—is the challenge to describe nonlinear …

Plasma current filamentation of an ultrarelativistic electron beam im**ing on an overdense
plasma is investigated, with emphasis on radiation-induced electron polarization. Particle-in …

Shocks are one of nature's most powerful particle accelerators and have been connected to
relativistic electron acceleration and cosmic rays. Upstream shock observations include …

Collisionless shocks are ubiquitous in the Universe and often associated with a strong
magnetic field. Here, we use large-scale particle-in-cell simulations of nonrelativistic …

A theory of electron injection into diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) for the generation of
cosmic-ray electrons at collisionless shocks is presented. We consider a recently proposed …