Radiotherapy is the current standard of care for more than 50% of all cancer patients.
Improvements in radiotherapy (RT) technology have increased tumor targeting and normal …

Laser-plasma acceleration of protons offers a compact, ultra-fast alternative to conventional
acceleration techniques, and is being widely pursued for potential applications in medicine …

Featured Application We report on new accelerator technology that has applications in
FLASH radiation therapy. FLASH radiation therapy may have profound implications in …

The interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with solids is largely affected by the plasma
gradient at the vacuum–solid interface, which modifies the absorption and ultimately …

The target normal sheath acceleration is a robust mechanism for proton and ion acceleration
from solid targets when irradiated by a high power laser. Since its discovery extensive …

Magnetic Vortex Acceleration (MVA) from near critical density targets is one of the promising
schemes of laser-driven ion acceleration. 3D particle-in-cell simulations are used to explore …

The new capabilities of the short focal length, high intensity beamline, named iP2, at the
BELLA Center will extend the reach of research in high energy density science, including …

Defect engineering is foundational to classical electronic device development and for
emerging quantum devices. Here, we report on defect engineering of silicon with ion pulses …

L3-HAPLS (High-repetition-rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System) at ELI (Extreme Light
Infrastructure) Beamlines currently delivers 0.45 PW pulses (12 J in 27 fs) at 3.3 Hz …

Conventional cancer therapies include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and, more
recently, immunotherapy. These modalities are often combined to improve the therapeutic …