Radiation transfer effects on the spectra of laser-generated plasmas

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 96:18 (2006) ARTN 185002

Authors:

O Renner, FM Kerr, E Wolfrum, J Hawreliak, D Chambers, SJ Rose, JS Wark, HA Scott, P Patel

Shock deformation of face-centred-cubic metals on subnanosecond timescales

NATURE MATERIALS 5:10 (2006) 805-809

Authors:

M Bringa, K Rosolankova, RE Rudd, BA Remington, JS Wark, M Duchaineau, H Kalantar, J Hawreliak, J Belak

Simulations of time-resolved x-ray diffraction in Laue geometry

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 18:40 (2006) 9231-9244

Authors:

B Lings, JS Wark, MF DeCamp, DA Reis, S Fahy

A coupled two-step plasma instability in PW laser plasma interactions

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 47:12 B (2005)

Authors:

JT Mendonça, P Norreys, R Bingham, JR Davies

Abstract:

A possible new mechanism for anomalous ion heating in ultra-intense laser plasmas is considered here. This mechanism is based on the excitation of an electron two-stream instability that is driven by the fast electron beam and resonantly decays into ion-acoustic waves. These low frequency waves are then strongly damped by the ion collisions in the dense plasma. The model gives a simple explanation for the preferential heating of the bulk ion population observed in recent laser experiments in the petawatt (PW) regime. © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Characterization of Ti Ka radiation resulting from interaction of a highly intense laser pulse with a thin titanium foil

32nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2005, EPS 2005, Held with the 8th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets - Europhysics Conference Abstracts 2 (2005) 1154-1157

Authors:

J King, M Key, C Chen, R Freeman, T Phillips, K Akli, M Borghesi, M Chen, T Cowan, S Hatchett, J Koch, K Lancaster, A MacKinnon, P Norreys, P Patel, L Romagnani, R Snavely, R Stephens, C Stoeckl, R Town, M Zepf, B Zhang