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. …”

Evidence of anomalous resistivity for hot electron propagation through a dense fusion core in fast ignition experiments by Yabuuchi, T, Das, A, Kumar, G, Habara, H, Kaw, P, Kodarna, R, Mima, K, Norreys, P, Sengupta, S, Tanaka, K

“…Anomalous resistivity for hot electrons passing through a dense core plasma is studied for fast ignition laser fusion. …”

Magnetic collimation of petawatt driven fast electron beam for prospective fast ignition studies by Kar, S, Adams, D, Borghesi, M, Markey, K, Ramakrishna, B, Zepf, M, Lancaster, K, Norreys, P, Robinson, A, Carroll, D, McKenna, P, Quinn, M, Yuan, X, Bellei, C, Schreiber, J

“…Experimental results showed guided transport of hot electron beam over hundreds of microns length inside solid density plasma, which were obtained from two experiments examining the scheme for petawatt laser driven hot electron beam while employing various target configurations. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.…”

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. …”

Experimental studies of the advanced fast ignitor scheme by Norreys, P, Allott, R, Clarke, R, Collier, J, Neely, D, Rose, S, Zepf, M, Santala, M, Bell, A, Krushelnick, K, Dangor, A, Woolsey, N, Evans, R, Habara, H, Norimatsu, T, Kodama, R

“…Guided compression offers an attractive route to explore some of the physics issues of hot electron heating and transport in the fast ignition route to inertial confinement fusion, whilst avoiding the difficulties associated with establishing the stability of the channel formation pulse. …”

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. …”

Time-Resolved Observation of Ultrahigh Intensity Laser-Produced Electron Jets Propagating through Transparent Solid Targets by Gremillet, L, Amiranoff, F, Baton, S, Gauthier, J, Koenig, M, Martinolli, E, Pisani, F, Bonnaud, G, Lebourg, C, Rousseaux, C, Toupin, C, Antonicci, A, Batani, D, Bernardinello, A, Hall, T, Scott, D, Norreys, P, Bandulet, H, Pépin, H

“…Along with these jets, we detect a slower (≈c/2) and broader (up to 1 mm) ionization front consistent with collisional hot electron energy transport.…”

Fast electron deposition in laser shock compressed plastic targets by Hall, T, Ellwi, S, Batani, D, Bernardinello, A, Masella, V, Koenig, M, Benuzzi, A, Krishnan, J, Pisani, F, Djaoui, A, Norreys, P, Neely, D, Rose, S, Key, M, Fews, P

“…Kα emission from chlorine fluor buried layers is used to measure the electron transport. The hot electron range in the shock compressed plastic is found to be approximately twice as large as the range in the solid density plastic.…”

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. …”

Fast electron propagation and energy deposition in laser shock compressed plasmas by Bernardinello, A, Batani, D, Masella, V, Hall, T, Ellwi, S, Koenig, M, Benuzzi, A, Krishnan, J, Pisani, F, Djaoui, A, Norreys, P, Neely, D, Rose, S, Key, M, Fews, P

“…The results show an increase of hot electron penetration in compressed matter with respect to an ordinary one. …”

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. …”

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.…”

Fast-ignition target design and experimental-concept validation on OMEGA by Stoeckl, C, Anderson, K, Betti, R, Boehly, T, Delettrez, J, Frenje, J, Goncharov, V, Glebov, V, Kelly, J, MacKinnon, A, McCrory, R, Meyerhofer, D, Morse, S, Myatt, J, Norreys, P, Nilson, P, Petrasso, R, Sangster, T, Solodov, A, Stephens, R, Storm, M, Theobald, W, Yaakobi, B, Waxer, L, Zhou, C

“…Simulations of these integrated experiments show significant heating of up to 1 keV due to the hot electrons from the short-pulse laser. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.…”