Gilliss Dyer

TL;DR: Simulations indicate that with improvements in the laser-pulse focus quality, acceleration to nearly 10 GeV should be possible with the available pulse energy, and the principal physical barriers to multi-gigaelectronvolt acceleration are overcome.

TL;DR: The design and performance of the Texas Petawatt Laser, which produces a 186 J 167 fs pulse based on the combination of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) and mixed Nd:glass amplification, is presented.

TL;DR: This work reports on a novel compact laser-driven neutron source with an unprecedented short pulse duration and high peak flux, an order of magnitude higher than any existing source, that opens venues for enhancing neutron radiography contrast and for creating astrophysical conditions of heavy element synthesis in the laboratory.

TL;DR: By measuring the temperature and the expansion rate of the heated Al plasma simultaneously and with picosecond time resolution, the predictions of the SESAME Livermore equation-of-state (LEOS) tables are found to be accurate to within 18%, in this dense plasma regime, where there have been few previous experimental measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present experimental results on laser-driven ion acceleration from relativistically transparent, overdense plasmas in the break-out afterburner (BOA) regime.