Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

[HTML][HTML] Toward first principles-based simulations of dense hydrogen

M Bonitz, J Vorberger, M Bethkenhagen… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate knowledge of the properties of hydrogen at high compression is crucial for
astrophysics (eg, planetary and stellar interiors, brown dwarfs, atmosphere of compact stars) …

Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons to 80 MeV from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density

M Rehwald, S Assenbaum, C Bernert, FE Brack… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

The high energy density scientific instrument at the European XFEL

U Zastrau, K Appel, C Baehtz, O Baehr… - Synchrotron …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
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 …

Generation and characterization of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets

JD Koralek, JB Kim, P Brůža, CB Curry, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The physics and chemistry of liquid solutions play a central role in science, and our
understanding of life on Earth. Unfortunately, key tools for interrogating aqueous systems …

Demonstration of non-destructive and isotope-sensitive material analysis using a short-pulsed laser-driven epi-thermal neutron source

M Zimmer, S Scheuren, A Kleinschmidt, N Mitura… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neutrons are a valuable tool for non-destructive material investigation as their interaction
cross sections with matter are isotope sensitive and can be used complementary to x-rays …

MeV proton acceleration at kHz repetition rate from ultra-intense laser liquid interaction

JT Morrison, S Feister, KD Frische… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser acceleration of ions to≳ MeV energies has been achieved on a variety of Petawatt
laser systems, raising the prospect of ion beam applications using compact ultra-intense …

Cascaded generation of isolated sub-10 attosecond half-cycle pulses

Y Shou, R Hu, Z Gong, J Yu, J erh Chen… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Sub-10 attosecond pulses (APs) with half-cycle electric fields provide exceptional
options to detect and manipulate electrons in the atomic timescale. However, the availability …

LhARA: the laser-hybrid accelerator for radiobiological applications

G Aymar, T Becker, S Boogert, M Borghesi… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The “Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications,” LhARA, is conceived as a
novel, flexible facility dedicated to the study of radiobiology. The technologies demonstrated …

Sub-micron thick liquid sheets produced by isotropically etched glass nozzles

CJ Crissman, M Mo, Z Chen, J Yang, DA Huyke… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the design and testing of glass nozzles used to produce liquid sheets. The
sheet nozzles use a single converging channel chemically etched into glass wafers by …