The study of structure, thermodynamic state, equation of state (EOS) and transport properties
of warm dense matter (WDM) has become one of the key aspects of laboratory astrophysics …

Light absorption near a surface of conductive materials and nanostructures leads to the
excitation of nonequilibrium, high-energy charge carriers: electrons above the Fermi level or …

We investigate a new regime for betatron x-ray emission that utilizes kilojoule-class
picosecond lasers to drive wakes in plasmas. When such laser pulses with intensities of∼ …

Laser-plasma-based accelerators are now able to provide the scientific community with
novel high-energy light sources that are essential to study high-energy density matter …

We have probed, with time-resolved x-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES), a
femtosecond-laser-heated aluminum foil with fluences up to 1 J/cm 2. The spectra reveal a …

In this paper I discuss the subject of warm dense matter (WDM), which, apart from being of
academic interest and relevant to inertial fusion capsules, is a subject of importance to those …

This paper presents an experimental and theoretical study of betatron x-ray radiation from
laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime. Our experiments use picosecond …

The structural, thermodynamic and transport properties of warm dense matter (WDM) are
crucial to the fields of astrophysics and planet science, as well as inertial confinement fusion …

We present here the use of absorption spectroscopy of the continuum radiation from x-pinch-
produced point x-ray sources as a diagnostic to investigate the properties of aluminum …

Two extended x-ray absorption fine structure flat crystal x-ray spectrometers (EFX's) were
designed and built for high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy over a large energy range with …