Recent progress of laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers

H Takabe, Y Kuramitsu - High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2021 - cambridge.org
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 …

Multi-scale simulations of particle acceleration in astrophysical systems

A Marcowith, G Ferrand, M Grech, Z Meliani… - Living Reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …

Generation, measurement, and modeling of strong magnetic fields generated by laser-driven micro coils

H Morita, S Fujioka - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
Strong magnetic fields play an important role in high-energy-density plasma. Several
approaches have been investigated within a decade to access the strong magnetic field …

Direct observations of particle dynamics in magnetized collisionless shock precursors in laser-produced plasmas

DB Schaeffer, W Fox, RK Follett, G Fiksel, CK Li… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We present the first laboratory observations of time-resolved electron and ion velocity
distributions in magnetized collisionless shock precursors. Thomson scattering of a probe …

Laser-produced magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor unstable plasma slabs in a 20 T magnetic field

B Khiar, G Revet, A Ciardi, K Burdonov, E Filippov… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many novel laboratory astrophysics and
inertial confinement fusion studies, as well as in industrial applications. Here we provide the …

The dynamics of a high Mach number quasi-perpendicular shock: MMS observations

H Madanian, MI Desai, SJ Schwartz… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Shock parameters at Earth's bow shock in rare instances can approach the Mach numbers
predicted at supernova remnants. We present our analysis of a high Alfvén Mach number …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic simulation of magnetic field generation and collisionless shock formation in expanding laboratory plasmas

W Fox, J Matteucci, C Moissard, DB Schaeffer… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Recent laboratory experiments with laser-produced plasmas have observed and studied a
number of fundamental physical processes relevant to magnetized astrophysical plasmas …

Laboratory observation of ion drift acceleration via reflection off laser-produced magnetized collisionless shocks

H Tang, Y Hao, G Hu, Q Lu, C Ren, Y Zhang, A Guo… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Fermi acceleration is believed to be the primary mechanism to produce high-energy
charged particles in the Universe, where charged particles gain energy successively from …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic simulations of piston-driven collisionless shock formation in magnetized laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, W Fox, J Matteucci, KV Lezhnin… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Laboratory laser experiments offer a novel approach to studying magnetized collisionless
shocks, and a common method in recent experiments is to drive shocks using a laser …

Kilotesla plasmoid formation by a trapped relativistic laser beam

M Ehret, Y Kochetkov, Y Abe, KFF Law, N Bukharskii… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
A strong quasistationary magnetic field is generated in hollow targets with curved internal
surface under the action of a relativistically intense picosecond laser pulse. Experimental …