Needs, trends, and advances in scintillators for radiographic imaging and tomography

Z Wang, C Dujardin, MS Freeman… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiographic imaging and tomography (RadIT), which started with Röntgen's seminal X-ray
work in 1895, now includes an increasing number of IT modalities. In addition to the original …

Laser wakefield and direct laser acceleration of electron by chirped laser pulses

HS Ghotra - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
Chirped laser pulses are investigated theoretically for laser wakefield (LW) and direct laser
(DL) acceleration of electrons in the plasma-bubble regime. Chir** of laser pulse with a …

Perspectives on relativistic electron–positron pair plasma experiments of astrophysical relevance using high-power lasers

H Chen, F Fiuza - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The study of relativistic electron–positron pair plasmas is both of fundamental physics
interest and important to understand the processes that shape the magnetic field dynamics …

Ultrabroad-band x-ray source using a picosecond, laser-driven plasma accelerator

N Lemos, PM King, D Rusby, I Pagano, M Sinclair… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
An ultrabroad-band x-ray source, with photon energies from 10 keV to> 1 MeV, based on a
picosecond laser-driven plasma accelerator, is characterized and used to radiograph high …

Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches

R Babjak, L Willingale, A Arefiev, M Vranic - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
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 …

Stability of ionization-injection-based laser-plasma accelerators

S Bohlen, JC Wood, T Brümmer, F Grüner… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2022 - APS
Laser-plasma acceleration (LPA) is a compact technique to accelerate electron bunches to
highly relativistic energies, making it a promising candidate to power radiation sources for …

Single-shot electron radiography using a laser–plasma accelerator

G Bruhaug, MS Freeman, HG Rinderknecht… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Contact and projection electron radiography of static targets was demonstrated using a laser–
plasma accelerator driven by a kilojoule, picosecond-class laser as a source of relativistic …

Magnetic field amplification by a nonlinear electron streaming instability

JR Peterson, S Glenzer, F Fiuza - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide
variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenarios …

High-brightness betatron emission from the interaction of a sub picosecond laser pulse with pre-ionized low-density polymer foam for ICF research

M Gyrdymov, J Cikhardt, P Tavana, NG Borisenko… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in plasmas of near-critical density (NCD) is a
very advancing platform for high-energy PW-class lasers of moderate relativistic intensity …

Laser-driven low energy electron beams for single-shot ultra-fast probing of meso-scale materials and warm dense matter

K Falk, M Šmíd, K Boháček, U Chaulagain, Y Gu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Laser wakefield acceleration has proven to be an excellent source of electrons and X-rays
suitable for ultra-fast probing of matter. These novel beams have demonstrated …