Focus on high energy density physics
New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 16:6 (2014) 065007
A photon–photon collider in a vacuum hohlraum
Nature Photonics Springer Nature 8:6 (2014) 434-436
Effects of large-angle Coulomb collisions on inertial confinement fusion plasmas.
Physical review letters 112:24 (2014) 245002
Abstract:
Large-angle Coulomb collisions affect the rates of energy and momentum exchange in a plasma, and it is expected that their effects will be important in many plasmas of current research interest, including in inertial confinement fusion. Their inclusion is a long-standing problem, and the first fully self-consistent method for calculating their effects is presented. This method is applied to "burn" in the hot fuel in inertial confinement fusion capsules and finds that the yield increases due to an increase in the rate of temperature equilibration between electrons and ions which is not predicted by small-angle collision theories. The equilibration rate increases are 50%-100% for number densities of 10(30) m(-3) and temperatures around 1 keV.Light into matter
Nature Photonics Springer Nature 8:6 (2014) 496-496
Opacity effects in a solid-density aluminium plasma created by photo-excitation with an X-ray laser
High Energy Density Physics Elsevier 11 (2014) 59-69