Search Results - "Cowan, Thomas E"
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Circumventing the Dephasing and Depletion Limits of Laser-Wakefield Acceleration
Published in Physical review. X (10-09-2019)“…Compact electron accelerators are paramount to next-generation synchrotron light sources and free-electron lasers, as well as for advanced accelerators at the…”
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Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons to 80 MeV from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density
Published in Nature communications (07-07-2023)“…Laser plasma-based particle accelerators attract great interest in fields where conventional accelerators reach limits based on size, cost or beam parameters…”
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Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities
Published in Light, science & applications (13-03-2023)“…Laser-driven ion sources are a rapidly developing technology producing high energy, high peak current beams. Their suitability for applications, such as…”
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Efficient laser-driven proton acceleration from cylindrical and planar cryogenic hydrogen jets
Published in Scientific reports (31-08-2017)“…We report on recent experimental results deploying a continuous cryogenic hydrogen jet as a debris-free, renewable laser-driven source of pure proton beams…”
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Cylindrical compression of thin wires by irradiation with a Joule-class short-pulse laser
Published in Nature communications (12-09-2024)“…Equation of state measurements at Jovian or stellar conditions are currently conducted by dynamic shock compression driven by multi-kilojoule multi-beam…”
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Efficient laser-driven proton and bremsstrahlung generation from cluster-assembled foam targets
Published in New journal of physics (01-09-2021)“…Abstract The interaction between intense 30 fs laser pulses and foam-coated 1.5 μ m-thick Al foils in the relativistic regime (up to 5 × 10 20 W cm −2 ) is…”
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Towards highest peak intensities for ultra-short MeV-range ion bunches
Published in Scientific reports (27-07-2015)“…A laser-driven, multi-MeV-range ion beamline has been installed at the GSI Helmholtz center for heavy ion research. The high-power laser PHELIX drives the very…”
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The dresden platform is a research hub for ultra-high dose rate radiobiology
Published in Scientific reports (23-11-2023)“…The recently observed FLASH effect describes the observation of normal tissue protection by ultra-high dose rates (UHDR), or dose delivery in a fraction of a…”
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Probing shock dynamics inside micro-wire targets after high-intensity laser irradiation using small angle x-ray scattering of a free-electron laser
Published in New journal of physics (01-10-2023)“…Abstract In this paper, we present an experiment that explores the plasma dynamics of a 7 μ m diameter carbon wire after being irradiated with a…”
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Off-harmonic optical probing of high intensity laser plasma expansion dynamics in solid density hydrogen jets
Published in Scientific reports (04-05-2022)“…Due to the non-linear nature of relativistic laser induced plasma processes, the development of laser-plasma accelerators requires precise numerical modeling…”
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All-optical structuring of laser-driven proton beam profiles
Published in Nature communications (13-12-2018)“…Extreme field gradients intrinsic to relativistic laser-interactions with thin solid targets enable compact MeV proton accelerators with unique bunch…”
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X-ray polarimetry and its application to strong-field quantum electrodynamics
Published in High power laser science and engineering (01-01-2023)“…Polarimetry is a highly sensitive method to quantify changes of the polarization state of light when passing through matter and is therefore widely applied in…”
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Time-resolved optical shadowgraphy of solid hydrogen jets as a testbed to benchmark particle-in-cell simulations
Published in Communications physics (21-12-2023)“…Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are a widely-used tool to model kinetics-dominated plasmas in ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions (dimensionless…”
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Femtosecond laser produced periodic plasma in a colloidal crystal probed by XFEL radiation
Published in Scientific reports (01-07-2020)“…With the rapid development of short-pulse intense laser sources, studies of matter under extreme irradiation conditions enter further unexplored regimes. In…”
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Visualizing plasmons and ultrafast kinetic instabilities in laser-driven solids using X-ray scattering
Published in Communications physics (03-09-2024)“…Ultra-intense lasers that ionize atoms and accelerate electrons in solids to near the speed of light can lead to kinetic instabilities that alter the laser…”
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(Sub-)Picosecond Surface Correlations of Femtosecond Laser Excited Al-Coated Multilayers Observed by Grazing-Incidence X-ray Scattering
Published in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (19-06-2024)“…Femtosecond high-intensity laser pulses at intensities surpassing 10 W/cm can generate a diverse range of functional surface nanostructures. Achieving precise…”
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Detecting vacuum birefringence with x-ray free electron lasers and high-power optical lasers: a feasibility study
Published in Physica scripta (01-02-2016)“…We study the feasibility of measuring vacuum birefringence by probing the focus of a high-intensity optical laser with an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL)…”
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Tumour irradiation in mice with a laser-accelerated proton beam
Published in Nature physics (01-03-2022)“…Recent oncological studies identified beneficial properties of radiation applied at ultrahigh dose rates, several orders of magnitude higher than the clinical…”
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Laser-driven high-energy proton beams from cascaded acceleration regimes
Published in Nature physics (01-07-2024)“…Laser-driven ion accelerators can deliver high-energy, high-peak current beams and are thus attracting attention as a compact alternative to conventional…”
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Spectral and spatial shaping of laser-driven proton beams using a pulsed high-field magnet beamline
Published in Scientific reports (04-06-2020)“…Intense laser-driven proton pulses, inherently broadband and highly divergent, pose a challenge to established beamline concepts on the path to…”
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