Hot electron generation and transport using Kα emission by Akli, K, Stephens, R, Key, M, Bartal, T, Beg, F, Chawla, S, Chen, C, Fedosejevs, R, Freeman, R, Friesen, H, Giraldez, E, Green, J, Hey, D, Higginson, D, Hund, J, Jarrott, L, Kemp, G, King, J, Kryger, A, Lancaster, K, Lepape, S, Link, A, Ma, T, MacKinnon, A, MacPhee, A

“…We have conducted experiments on both the Vulcan and Titan laser facilities to study hot electron generation and transport in the context of fast ignition. …”

Radiation and hot electron temperature measurements of short-pulse laser driven hohlraums by Brown, C, James, S, Beg, F, Constantin, C, Daskalova, R, Edwards, R, Freeman, R, Higginson, D, Morton, J, Niemann, C, Riley, D, Thomas, B, van Woerkom, L, Hoarty, D, Rose, S, Gregori, G

“…We have performed measurements of the radiation and the hot electron temperature in sub-millimetre size hohlraums driven by a high intensity short-pulse laser. …”

Studies on the transport of high intensity laser-generated hot electrons in cone coupled wire targets by King, J, Akli, K, Freeman, R, Green, J, Hatchett, S, Hey, D, Jamangi, P, Key, M, Koch, J, Lancaster, K, Ma, T, MacKinnon, A, MacPhee, A, Norreys, P, Patel, P, Phillips, T, Stephens, R, Theobald, W, Town, R, Van Woerkom, L, Zhang, B, Beg, F

“…Experimental results showing hot electron penetration into Cu wires using Kα fluorescence imaging are presented. …”

A study of picosecond laser-solid interactions up to 10(19) W cm(-2) by Beg, F, Bell, A, Dangor, A, Danson, C, Fews, A, Glinsky, M, Hammel, B, Lee, P, Norreys, P, Tatarakis, M

“…The maximum ion energy cutoff Emax (which is related to the hot electron temperature) is in the range 1.0-12.0 MeV and is shown to scale as Emax≈I1/3. …”

Observations of the filamentation of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams by Wei, MS, Beg, F, Clark, E, Dangor, A, Evans, R, Gopal, A, Ledingham, K, McKenna, P, Norreys, P, Tatarakis, M, Zepf, M, Krushelnick, K

“…The structure of the hot electron beams emitted in laser-solid target interactions was analyzed. …”

Studies of the fast ignition route to inertial confinement fusion at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory by Norreys, P, Bakarezos, M, Barringer, L, Borghesi, M, Beg, F, Castro-Colins, M, Chambers, D, Dangor, A, Danson, C, Djaoui, A, Fews, A, Galliard, R, Gibbon, P, Gizzi, L, Glinsky, M, Hammel, B, Key, M, Lee, P, Loukakos, P, MacKinnon, A, Meyer, C, Meyer-ter-Vehn, J, Moustaizis, S, Preston, S, Pukhov, A

“…Qualitative agreement of hot electron temperature measurements with PIC simulations are also discussed. …”

Transport of energy by ultraintense laser-generated electrons in nail-wire targets by Ma, T, Key, M, Mason, R, Akli, K, Daskalova, R, Freeman, R, Green, J, Highbarger, K, Jaanimagi, P, King, J, Lancaster, K, Hatchett, S, MacKinnon, A, MacPhee, A, Norreys, P, Patel, P, Stephens, R, Theobald, W, Van Woerkom, L, Wei, MS, Wilks, S, Beg, F

“…The coupling efficiency to the wire was 3.3 ± 1.7% with an average hot electron temperature of 620 ± 125 keV. Extreme ultraviolet images (68 and 256 eV) indicate additional heating of a thin surface layer of the wire. …”

Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics by Santos, J, Bailly-Grandvaux, M, Ehret, M, Arefiev, A, Batani, D, Beg, F, Calisti, A, Ferri, S, Florido, R, Forestier-Colleoni, P, Fujioka, S, Gigosos, M, Giuffrida, L, Gremillet, L, Honrubia, J, Kojima, S, Korneev, P, Law, K, Marques, J, Morace, A, Mosse, C, Peyrusse, O, Rose, S, Roth, M, Sakata, S, Suzuki-Vidal, F, Tikhonchuk, V, Toncian, T, Woolsey, N, Zhang, Z

“…The quasi-static currents are provided from hot electron ejection from the laser-irradiated surface. …”

Effect of relativistic plasma on extreme-ultraviolet harmonic emission from intense laser-matter interactions by Krushelnick, K, Rozmus, W, Wagner, U, Beg, F, Bochkarev, S, Clark, E, Dangor, A, Evans, R, Gopal, A, Habara, H, Mangles, S, Norreys, P, Robinson, A, Tatarakis, M, Wei, MS, Zepf, M

“…The spectral modifications are shown to be due to the laser absorption into hot electrons and the subsequent sharply increasing relativistic electron component within the dense plasma. © 2008 The American Physical Society.…”