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Particle acceleration: Pushing protons with photons

Nature Photonics 5:3 (2011) 134-135
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Reply to "Comment on 'Free-free opacity in warm-dense aluminum'"

High Energy Density Physics 7:1 (2011) 40-42

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SM Vinko, G Gregori, JS Wark

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We reply to the comment by Iglesias [HEDP, XXX] regarding our implementation of a solid-state pseudopotential in a model for the calculation of the free--free opacity in warm-dense aluminum [HEDP 5(2009), 124-131]. Some further details are given describing the method used to determine the adjustable parameter in the pseudopotential and several important limitations are discussed. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
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Observation of K‐Shell Soft X Ray Emission of Nitrogen Irradiated by XUV‐Free Electron Laser FLASH at Intensities Greater than 1016 W/cm2

Contributions to Plasma Physics Wiley 51:2‐3 (2011) 284-287

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E Galtier, FB Rosmej, O Renner, L Juha, J Chalupsky, J‐C Gauthier, S White, D Riley, S Vinko, T Witcher, J Wark, B Nagler, RW Lee, AJ Nelson, S Toleikis
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Production of picosecond, kilojoule, petawatt laser pulses via Raman amplification of nanosecond pulses

(2011)

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R Trines, F Fiuza, R Bingham, RA Fonseca, LO Silva, RA Cairns, PA Norreys
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Experimental results performed in the framework of the HiPER European Project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 8080 (2011)

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D Batani, M Koenig, S Baton, F Perez, LA Gizzi, P Koester, L Labate, J Honrubia, A Debayle, J Santos, G Schurtz, S Hulin, X Ribeyre, C Fourment, P Nicolai, B Vauzour, L Gremillet, W Nazarov, J Pasley, G Tallents, M Richetta, K Lancaster, C Spindloe, M Tolley, D Neely, P Norreys, M Kozlová, J Nejdl, B Rus, L Antonelli, A Morace, L Volpe, J Davies, J Wolowski, J Badziak

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This paper presents the goals and some of the results of experiments conducted within the Working Package 10 (Fusion Experimental Programme) of the HiPER Project. These experiments concern the study of the physics connected to "Advanced Ignition Schemes", i.e. the Fast Ignition and the Shock Ignition Approaches to Inertial Fusion. Such schemes are aimed at achieving a higher gain, as compared to the classical approach which is used in NIF, as required for future reactors, and making fusion possible with smaller facilities. In particular, a series of experiments related to Fast Ignition were performed at the RAL (UK) and LULI (France) Laboratories and were addressed to study the propagation of fast electrons (created by a short-pulse ultra-high-intensity beam) in compressed matter, created either by cylindrical implosions or by compression of planar targets by (planar) laser-driven shock waves. A more recent experiment was performed at PALS and investigated the laser-plasma coupling in the 1016 W/cm2 intensity regime of interest for Shock Ignition. © 2011 SPIE.
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