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Open AccessMultiscale study of high energy attosecond pulse interaction with matter and application to proton–Boron fusion
For several decades, the interest of the scientific community in aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton–Boron fusion has grown because of potential applications in different fields. Recently, many scientif...
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Laboratory evidence for proton energization by collisionless shock surfing
Charged particles can be accelerated to high energies by collisionless shock waves in astrophysical environments, such as supernova remnants. By interacting with the magnetized ambient medium, these shocks can...
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Open AccessEnhanced laser-driven proton acceleration using nanowire targets
Laser-driven proton acceleration is a growing field of interest in the high-power laser community. One of the big challenges related to the most routinely used laser-driven ion acceleration mechanism, Target-N...
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Open AccessLaboratory investigation of particle acceleration and magnetic field compression in collisionless colliding fast plasma flows
In many natural phenomena in space (cosmic-rays, fast winds), non-thermal ion populations are produced, with wave-particle interactions in self-induced electromagnetic turbulence being suspected to be mediator...
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Whispering Gallery Effect in Relativistic Optics
A relativistic laser pulse, confined in a cylindrical-like target, under specific conditions may perform multiple scattering along the internal target surface. This results in the confinement of the laser ligh...
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Open AccessAcceleration of collimated 45 MeV protons by collisionless shocks driven in low-density, large-scale gradient plasmas by a 1020 W/cm2, 1 µm laser
A new type of proton acceleration stemming from large-scale gradients, low-density targets, irradiated by an intense near-infrared laser is observed. The produced protons are characterized by high-energies (wi...
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Open AccessCollimated protons accelerated from an overdense gas jet irradiated by a 1 µm wavelength high-intensity short-pulse laser
We have investigated proton acceleration in the forward direction from a near-critical density hydrogen gas jet target irradiated by a high intensity (1018 W/cm2), short-pulse (5 ps) laser with wavelength of 1.05...
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All-Optical Raman XFEL, Based on the Electron Emission in a Transverse High Intensity Optical Lattice
We present a new scheme of X-ray free electron laser, based on the interaction between a moderately relativistic electron bunch, and a transverse high intensity optical lattice. Gain scaling laws in the small ...
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Laser-driven proton acceleration and applications: Recent results
The acceleration of high-energy ion beams following the interaction of short (t < 1 ps) and intense (Iλ2 > 1018 W cm-2 μm2) laser pulses with solid targets is a field of research currently attracting high interes...
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Importance of magnetic resistive fields in the heating of a micro-cone target irradiated by a high intensity laser
Obtaining keV ion temperatures at solid density, i.e. “warm dense matter”, in the laboratory would be of great interest to measure opacity and equations of state of matter under extremes conditions. Here we re...
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Laser-driven proton scaling laws and new paths towards energy increase
The past few years have seen remarkable progress in the development of laser-based particle accelerators. The ability to produce ultrabright beams of multi-megaelectronvolt protons routinely has many potential...
