Intense lasers enable generating high-energy particle beams in university-scale
laboratories. With the direct laser acceleration (DLA) method, the leading part of the laser …

Brilliant X-and γ-ray sources with ultrashort duration are widely pursued in fundamental
science, industry and medicine. Compact femtosecond X-ray sources based on relativistic …

Laser-driven neutron source (LDNS) is attracting interest for several reasons including (i)
compactness of the source,(ii) neutron pulse shortness and (iii) transportability of laser …

Nuclear photonics is a emerging field of science which combines research with new
generation γ-ray sources based on traditional and laser-based electron accelerators. Here …

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

Laser-driven neutrons arouse outstanding interest because of their promising uses in
several fields, from basic science to materials inspection. Many experiments achieved …

The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide
hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available …

Laser-driven deuterons generate neutrons with a mean energy of 2.5 MeV, through the 2H
(d, n) fusion reaction in a deuterated polyethylene (dPE) tablet. The deuterium ions are …

The temperature measurement of material inside of an object is one of the key technologies
for control of dynamical processes. For this purpose, various techniques such as laser …

Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many
high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity …