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 …

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

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Ion stop** in warm dense matter is a process of fundamental importance for the
understanding of the properties of dense plasmas, the realization and the interpretation of …

Recent progress in generating high-energy (> 50 MeV) protons from intense laser–matter
interactions (1018–1021 W cm− 2; refs,,,,,,) has opened up new areas of research, with …

A distinctive way of quantitatively imaging inertial fusion implosions has resulted in the
characterization of two different types of electromagnetic configurations and in the …

We report experimental evidence that multi-MeV protons accelerated in relativistic laser-
plasma interactions are modulated by strong filamentary electromagnetic fields. Modulations …

Developments in machine learning promise to ameliorate some of the challenges of
modeling complex physical systems through neural-network-based surrogate models. High …

Proton imaging is commonly used to reveal the electric and magnetic fields that are found in
high energy density plasmas. Presented here is an analysis of this technique that is directed …