Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

K Jiang, TW Huang, R Li, MY Yu, HB Zhuo, SZ Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many
high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity …

Comparative spectra and efficiencies of ions laser-accelerated forward from the front and rear surfaces of thin solid foils

J Fuchs, Y Sentoku, E d'Humières, TE Cowan… - Physics of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The maximum energy of protons that are accelerated forward by high-intensity, short-pulse
lasers from either the front or rear surfaces of thin metal foils is compared for a large range of …

Study of Ultraintense Laser-Produced Fast-Electron Propagation and Filamentation<? format?> in Insulator and Metal Foil Targets by Optical Emission Diagnostics

M Manclossi, JJ Santos, D Batani, J Faure, A Debayle… - Physical Review Letters, 2006 - APS
The transport of an intense electron beam produced by ultrahigh intensity laser pulses
through metals and insulators has been studied by high resolution imaging of the optical …

Short intense laser pulse collapse in near-critical plasma

F Sylla, A Flacco, S Kahaly, M Veltcheva, A Lifschitz… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
It is observed that the interaction of an intense ultrashort laser pulse with a near-critical gas
jet results in the pulse collapse and the deposition of a significant fraction of the energy. This …

Fast electron energy transport in solid density and compressed plasma

P Norreys, D Batani, S Baton, FN Beg, R Kodama… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a review of selected experiments on fast electron transport in solids and
plasmas following laser-matter interaction at relativistic intensities. Particular attention is …

Creation of hot dense matter in short-pulse laser-plasma interaction with tamped titanium foils

SN Chen, G Gregori, PK Patel, HK Chung… - Physics of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Dense titanium plasma has been heated to an electron temperature up to 1300 eV with a
100 TW⁠, high intensity short-pulse laser. The experiments were conducted using Ti foils (⁠ …

Electron beam hollowing in laser–solid interactions

JR Davies, JS Green, PA Norreys - Plasma physics and …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron beam hollowing in a plasma is investigated using an analytical, rigid beam model
and two different hybrid codes in an attempt to explain observations of hollow plasma …

Optimization and control of laser-accelerated proton beams

MS Schollmeier - 2008 - tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
Die Bestrahlung von mikrometerdünnen Metallfolien durch moderne
Hochenergiekurzpulslaser mit Intensitäten größer als 1018 W/cm2 führt unter anderem zur …

Dynamics of the electromagnetic fields induced by fast electron propagation in near-solid-density media

L Romagnani, APL Robinson, RJ Clarke, D Doria… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The propagation of fast electron currents in near solid-density media was investigated via
proton probing. Fast currents were generated inside dielectric foams via irradiation with a …

Direct, Absolute, and In Situ Measurement of Fast Electron Transport via Cherenkov Emission

H Habara, K Ohta, KA Tanaka, GR Kumar… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We present direct measurements of the absolute energy distribution of relativistic electrons
generated in intense, femtosecond laser interaction with a solid. Cherenkov emission …