M. J. V. Streeter

TL;DR: Three-dimensional particle in cell simulations show that the intensity within the guided filament is amplified beyond its initial focused value to a normalized vector potential of a0>6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.

TL;DR: It is shown that ultraintense laser pulses with an extremely steep rising edge can be obtained using sufficiently strong and well-controlled relativistic nonlinearities in spatially well-defined near-critical-density plasmas.

TL;DR: A comparison of spectroscopic and interferometric measurements suggests that injection is assisted by laser ionization of atoms or ions within the channel.

TL;DR: The European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications (EuPRAXIA) as mentioned in this paper is a European facility with multi-GeV electron beams using plasma as the acceleration medium for photon science, high-energy physics (HEP) detector tests, and other applications such as compact X-ray sources for medical imaging or material processing.

TL;DR: This report reports on the experimental studies of laser driven ion acceleration from a double-layer target where a near-critical density target with a few-micron thickness is coated in front of a nanometer-thin diamondlike carbon foil and attributed the enhanced acceleration to superponderomotive electrons.