Angelo Schiavi

TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of laser-plasma interaction conditions of relevance for inertial confinement fusion (ICF)/fast ignition has been explored, including the electric field distribution in laser-produced long-scale plasmas of ICF interest, the measurement of highly transient electric fields related to the generation and dynamics of hot electron currents following ultra-intense laser irradiation of targets, and the observation in underdense Plasmas, after the...

TL;DR: It has been shown that the protons are emitted, in a quasilaminar fashion, from a region of transverse size of the order of 100-200 microm, which is equivalent to those of a much smaller source located several hundred microm in front of the foil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the acceleration of multi-MeV protons from the rear surface of thin solid foils irradiated by an intense ($\ensuremath{\sim}{10}^{18}\text{ }\text{ W}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$) and short (1.5

TL;DR: The experimental results are consistent with an electrostatic accelerating mechanism that requires an ultrashort scale length at the back of the target.

TL;DR: In this paper, a macroscopic bubble-like structure has been detected through the deflection that the associated electric charge separation causes in a proton probe beam, interpreted as the remnants of a cloud of relativistic solitons generated in the plasma by the ultraintense laser pulse.