Characterisation of deuterium spectra from laser driven multi-species sources by employing differentially filtered image plate detectors in Thomson spectrometers

(2014)

Authors:

A Alejo, S Kar, H Ahmed, AG Krygier, D Doria, R Clarke, J Fernandez, RR Freeman, J Fuchs, A Green, JS Green, D Jung, A Kleinschmidt, CLS Lewis, JT Morrison, Z Najmudin, H Nakamura, G Nersisyan, P Norreys, M Notley, M Oliver, M Roth, JA Ruiz, L Vassura, M Zepf, M Borghesi

Enhanced proton beam collimation in the ultra-intense short pulse regime

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion IOP Publishing 56:8 (2014) 084001

Authors:

JS Green, NP Dover, M Borghesi, CM Brenner, FH Cameron, DC Carroll, PS Foster, P Gallegos, G Gregori, P McKenna, CD Murphy, Z Najmudin, CAJ Palmer, R Prasad, L Romagnani, KE Quinn, J Schreiber, MJV Streeter, S Ter-Avetisyan, O Tresca, M Zepf, D Neely

Laser and Plasma Accelerator Workshop 2013

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion IOP Publishing 56:8 (2014) 080301

Authors:

Simon M Hooker, Stuart Mangles, Rajeev Pattathil

Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion IOP Publishing 56:8 (2014) 084013

Authors:

R Assmann, R Bingham, T Bohl, C Bracco, B Buttensch?n, A Butterworth, A Caldwell, S Chattopadhyay, S Cipiccia, E Feldbaumer, RA Fonseca, B Goddard, M Gross, O Grulke, E Gschwendtner, J Holloway, C Huang, D Jaroszynski, S Jolly, P Kempkes, N Lopes, K Lotov, J Machacek, SR Mandry, JW McKenzie, M Meddahi, BL Militsyn, N Moschuering, P Muggli, Z Najmudin, TCQ Noakes, PA Norreys, E ?z, A Pardons, A Petrenko, A Pukhov, K Rieger, O Reimann, H Ruhl, E Shaposhnikova, LO Silva, A Sosedkin, R Tarkeshian, RMGN Trines, T T?ckmantel, J Vieira, H Vincke, M Wing, G Xia

Nanosecond Imaging of Shock- and Jet-Like Features

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2014)

Authors:

ER Tubman, R Crowston, R Alraddadi, HW Doyle, J Meinecke, JE Cross, R Bolis, D Lamb, P Tzeferacos, D Doria, B Reville, H Ahmed, M Borghesi, G Gregori, NC Woolsey

Abstract:

The production of shock- and collimated jet-like features is recorded from the self-emission of a plasma using a 16- frame camera, which can show the progression of the interaction over short (100s ns) durations. A cluster of laser beams, with intensity 10¹⁵$ W/cm², was focused onto a planar aluminum foil to produce a plasma that expanded into 0.7 mbar of argon gas. The acquisition of 16 ultrafast images on a single shot allows prompt spatial and temporal characterization of the plasma and enables the velocity of the jet- and shock-like features to be calculated.