High pressures generated by laser driven shocks: applications to planetary physics

Nuclear Fusion IOP Publishing 44:12 (2004) s208-s214

Authors:

M Koenig, E Henry, G Huser, A Benuzzi-Mounaix, B Faral, E Martinolli, S Lepape, T Vinci, D Batani, M Tomasini, B Telaro, P Loubeyre, T Hall, P Celliers, G Collins, L DaSilva, R Cauble, D Hicks, D Bradley, A MacKinnon, P Patel, J Eggert, J Pasley, O Willi, D Neely, M Notley, C Danson, M Borghesi, L Romagnani, T Boehly, K Lee

Plasma devices to guide and collimate a high density of MeV electrons

Nature Springer Nature 432:7020 (2004) 1005-1008

Authors:

R Kodama, Y Sentoku, ZL Chen, GR Kumar, SP Hatchett, Y Toyama, TE Cowan, RR Freeman, J Fuchs, Y Izawa, MH Key, Y Kitagawa, K Kondo, T Matsuoka, H Nakamura, M Nakatsutsumi, PA Norreys, T Norimatsu, RA Snavely, RB Stephens, M Tampo, KA Tanaka, T Yabuuchi

Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas in the laboratory

Astronomy & Geophysics Oxford University Press (OUP) 45:6 (2004) 6.18-6.21

Authors:

FP Keenan, SJ Rose

Vulcan Petawatt—an ultra-high-intensity interaction facility

Nuclear Fusion IOP Publishing 44:12 (2004) s239-s246

Authors:

CN Danson, PA Brummitt, RJ Clarke, JL Collier, B Fell, AJ Frackiewicz, S Hancock, S Hawkes, C Hernandez-Gomez, P Holligan, MHR Hutchinson, A Kidd, WJ Lester, IO Musgrave, D Neely, DR Neville, PA Norreys, DA Pepler, CJ Reason, W Shaikh, TB Winstone, RWW Wyatt, BE Wyborn

Molecular-dynamic calculation of the inverse-bremsstrahlung heating of non-weakly-coupled plasmas

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 70:5 2 (2004)

Authors:

N David, DJ Spence, SM Hooker

Abstract:

The inverse bremsstrahlung (IB) heating rates of a plasma as a function of density and laser intensity were calculated using a molecular dynamic (MD) code. The code belonged to the class of particle-particle-particle-mesh codes. The equations solved by the MD code avoided several assumptions which were inherent to alternative methods. The results of the MD code were compared to previous results for plasmas of low coupling. The results of the calculations for dense, moderately coupled plasmas were also presented. An analytic expression for the IB heating rate, based on a fit to the rates calculated by MD code, was also presented.