Ultrafast radiographic imaging and tracking: An overview of instruments, methods, data, and applications

Z Wang, AFT Leong, A Dragone, AE Gleason… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrafast radiographic imaging and tracking (U-RadIT) use state-of-the-art ionizing particle
and light sources to experimentally study sub-nanosecond transients or dynamic processes …

A flexible proton beam imaging energy spectrometer (PROBIES) for high repetition rate or single-shot high energy density (HED) experiments

DA Mariscal, BZ Djordjević, R Anirudh… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The PROBIES diagnostic is a new, highly flexible, imaging and energy spectrometer
designed for laser-accelerated protons. The diagnostic can detect low-mode spatial …

Indication of p+ 11B reaction in Laser Induced Nanofusion experiment

N Kroó, LP Csernai, I Papp, MA Kedves, M Aladi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The NanoPlasmonic Laser Induced Fusion Energy (NAPLIFE) 1 project proposed
fusion by regulating the laser light absorption via resonant nanorod antennas implanted into …

Cross-Filament Stochastic Acceleration of Electrons in Kilojoule Picosecond Laser Interactions with Near-Critical-Density Plasmas

XF Shen, A Pukhov, ON Rosmej, NE Andreev - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Understanding the interaction of a kilojoule picosecond laser pulse with long-scale-length
preplasma or homogeneous near-critical-density (NCD) plasma is crucial for guiding …

[HTML][HTML] Toward machine-learning-assisted PW-class high-repetition-rate experiments with solid targets

DA Mariscal, BZ Djordjevic, R Anirudh… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present progress in utilizing a machine learning (ML) assisted optimization framework to
study the trends in a parameter space defined by spectrally shaped, high-intensity, petawatt …

Isofield plasma expansion in kJ petawatt laser-driven ion acceleration with a tailored fast electron temperature

N Iwata, K Mima, Y Sentoku - High Energy Density Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Kilojoule-class relativistic intensity lasers, having multi-picosecond (ps) pulse durations,
enable efficient ion acceleration in the interaction with thin foil targets. The foil plasma …

Single-shot measurements of pulse-front tilt in intense ps laser pulses and its effect on accelerated electron and ion beam characteristics

ES Grace, BZ Djordjevic, Z Guang, D Mariscal… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report recent single-shot spatiotemporal measurements of laser pulses, including pulse-
front tilt (PFT) and spatial chirp, taken at the Compact Multipulse Terawatt laser at the Jupiter …

Mitigation and characterization of crosstalk between laser-driven radiography sources

CS Wong, DP Broughton, TR Schmidt… - High Energy Density …, 2024 - Elsevier
Radiography with multiple probe species offers the potential to extract additional information
about a given object as compared to radiography with a single probe species. The flexibility …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the response of radiochromic film to quasi-monoenergetic x rays through a cross-calibration with image plates

BI Buschmann, M Cufari, N Vanderloo… - Review of Scientific …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Radiochromic film (RCF) and image plates (IPs) are both commonly used detectors in
diagnostics fielded at inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and high-energy-density physics …

Laser ion acceleration from tailored solid targets with micron-scale channels

KV Lezhnin, SV Bulanov - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Laser ion acceleration is a promising concept for the generation of fast ions using a compact
laser-solid interaction setup. In this study, we theoretically investigate the feasibility of ion …