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Kevin J. Bowers
Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Publications - 99
Citations - 8348
Kevin J. Bowers is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Magnetic reconnection. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 99 publications receiving 7197 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin J. Bowers include D. E. Shaw Research & University of California, Berkeley.
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Saturation of backward stimulated scattering of a laser beam in the kinetic regime.
TL;DR: Wave front bowing of electron-plasma waves (ion-acoustic waves) from trapped particle nonlinear frequency shift is observed in the SRS (SBS) regime for the first time and self-focusing from trapped particles modulational instability (TPMI) is shown to occur in 2D and 3D SRS simulations.
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Efficient carbon ion beam generation from laser-driven volume acceleration
Daniel Jung,Daniel Jung,Daniel Jung,Lin Yin,Brian J. Albright,Donald C. Gautier,Samuel A. Letzring,Brendan Dromey,Mark Yeung,Rainer Hörlein,R. C. Shah,Sasikumar Palaniyappan,K. Allinger,Jörg Schreiber,Kevin J. Bowers,H-C Wu,Juan C. Fernández,Dietrich Habs,Bjorn Hegelich +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, experimental data on laser-driven carbon C6+ ion acceleration with a peak intensity of 5???1020?W?cm?2 are presented and compared for opaque target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) and relativistically transparent laser?plasma interactions.
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Theory of laser acceleration of light-ion beams from interaction of ultrahigh-intensity lasers with layered targets.
Brian J. Albright,Lin Yin,Bjorn Hegelich,Kevin J. Bowers,Thomas J. T. Kwan,Juan C. Fernandez +5 more
TL;DR: An analytic model is obtained that predicts how the mean energy and quality of monoenergetic ion beams and the energy of substrate ions vary with substrate material and light-ion layer composition and thickness.
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Monoenergetic Ion Beam Generation by Driving Ion Solitary Waves with Circularly Polarized Laser Light
Daniel Jung,Lin Yin,Brian J. Albright,Donald C. Gautier,Rainer Hörlein,Daniel Kiefer,A. Henig,Randall P. Johnson,Samuel A. Letzring,Sasikumar Palaniyappan,R. C. Shah,T. Shimada,Xueqing Yan,Kevin J. Bowers,Toshiki Tajima,Juan C. Fernandez,Dietrich Habs,Bjorn Hegelich +17 more
TL;DR: The conversion efficiency into monoenergetic ions is increased by an order of magnitude compared with previous experimental results, representing an important step towards applications such as ion fast ignition.
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0.374 Pflop/s trillion-particle kinetic modeling of laser plasma interaction on Roadrunner
TL;DR: The outstanding performance and scalability of the VPIC kinetic plasma modeling code on the heterogeneous IBM Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is demonstrated and opens up the exciting possibility of using VPIC to model, from first-principles, an issue critical to the success of the multi-billion dollar DOE/NNSA National Ignition Facility.