QED-driven laser absorption

(2016)

Authors:

MC Levy, TG Blackburn, N Ratan, J Sadler, CP Ridgers, M Kasim, L Ceurvorst, J Holloway, MG Baring, AR Bell, SH Glenzer, G Gregori, A Ilderton, M Marklund, M Tabak, SC Wilks

Short-pulse laser-driven x-ray radiography

High Power Laser Science and Engineering Cambridge University Press 4 (2016) e30

Authors:

E Brambrink, S Baton, M Koenig, R Yurchak, N Bidaut, B Albertazzi, JE Cross, Gianluca Gregori, Alexandra Rigby, E Falize, A Pelka, F Kroll, S Pikuz, Y Sakawa, N Ozaki, C Kuranz, M Manuel, C Li, P Tzeferacos, D Lamb

Abstract:

We have developed a new radiography setup with a short-pulse laser-driven x-ray source. Using a radiography axis perpendicular to both long- and short-pulse lasers allowed optimizing the incident angle of the short-pulse laser on the x-ray source target. The setup has been tested with various x-ray source target materials and different laser wavelengths. Signal to noise ratios are presented as well as achieved spatial resolutions. The high quality of our technique is illustrated on a plasma flow radiograph obtained during a laboratory astrophysics experiment on POLARs.

AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 829 (2016) 76-82

Authors:

E Gschwendtner, E Adli, L Amorim, R Apsimon, R Assmann, A-M Bachmann, F Batsch, J Bauche, VK Berglyd Olsen, M Bernardini, R Bingham, B Biskup, T Bohl, C Bracco, PN Burrows, G Burt, B Buttenschön, A Butterworth, A Caldwell, M Cascella, E Chevallay, S Cipiccia, H Damerau, L Deacon, P Dirksen, S Doebert, U Dorda, J Farmer, V Fedosseev, E Feldbaumer, R Fiorito, R Fonseca, F Friebel, AA Gorn, O Grulke, J Hansen, C Hessler, W Hofle, J Holloway, M Hüther, D Jaroszynski, L Jensen, S Jolly, A Joulaei, M Kasim, F Keeble, Y Li, S Liu, N Lopes, KV Lotov, S Mandry, R Martorelli, M Martyanov, S Mazzoni, O Mete, VA Minakov, J Mitchell, J Moody, P Muggli, Z Najmudin, P Norreys, E Öz, A Pardons, K Pepitone, A Petrenko, G Plyushchev, A Pukhov, K Rieger, H Ruhl, F Salveter, N Savard, J Schmidt, A Seryi, E Shaposhnikova, ZM Sheng, P Sherwood, L Silva, L Soby, AP Sosedkin, RI Spitsyn, R Trines, PV Tuev, M Turner, V Verzilov, J Vieira, H Vincke, Y Wei, CP Welsch, M Wing, G Xia, H Zhang

Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by longitudinally imposed strong magnetic fields

(2016)

Authors:

M Bailly-Grandvaux, JJ Santos, C Bellei, P Forestier-Colleoni, S Fujioka, L Giuffrida, JJ Honrubia, D Batani, R Bouillaud, M Chevrot, JE Cross, R Crowston, S Dorard, J-L Dubois, M Ehret, G Gregori, S Hulin, S Kojima, E Loyez, J-R Marques, A Morace, Ph Nicolai, M Roth, S Sakata, G Schaumann, F Serres, J Servel, VT Tikhonchuk, N Woolsey, Z Zhang

Machine learning applied to proton radiography

(2016)

Authors:

Nicholas FY Chen, Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim, Luke Ceurvorst, Naren Ratan, James Sadler, Matthew C Levy, Raoul Trines, Robert Bingham, Peter Norreys