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École Polytechnique
Education•Palaiseau, France•
About: École Polytechnique is a education organization based out in Palaiseau, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Laser & Plasma. The organization has 18995 authors who have published 39265 publications receiving 1225163 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole Polytechnique & Polytechnique.
Topics: Laser, Plasma, Electron, Population, Nonlinear system
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TL;DR: It is shown that a gain in maximum electron energy of up to 200 megaelectronvolts can be achieved, along with an improvement in the quality of the ultrashort electron beam in the forced laser wake field regime.
Abstract: Plasmas are an attractive medium for the next generation of particle accelerators because they can support electric fields greater than several hundred gigavolts per meter. These accelerating fields are generated by relativistic plasma waves-space-charge oscillations-that can be excited when a high-intensity laser propagates through a plasma. Large currents of background electrons can then be trapped and subsequently accelerated by these relativistic waves. In the forced laser wake field regime, where the laser pulse length is of the order of the plasma wavelength, we show that a gain in maximum electron energy of up to 200 megaelectronvolts can be achieved, along with an improvement in the quality of the ultrashort electron beam.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a beam of x-ray radiation can be generated by simply focusing a single high-intensity laser pulse into a gas jet, which has keV energy and lies within a narrow cone angle.
Abstract: We demonstrate that a beam of x-ray radiation can be generated by simply focusing a single high-intensity laser pulse into a gas jet. A millimeter-scale laser-produced plasma creates, accelerates, and wiggles an ultrashort and relativistic electron bunch. As they propagate in the ion channel produced in the wake of the laser pulse, the accelerated electrons undergo betatron oscillations, generating a femtosecond pulse of synchrotron radiation, which has keV energy and lies within a narrow (50 mrad) cone angle.
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Max Planck Society1, Centre national de la recherche scientifique2, University of Hamburg3, Humboldt University of Berlin4, Durham University5, École Polytechnique6, Collège de France7, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies8, University of Montpellier9, Joseph Fourier University10, DSM11, North-West University12, Ruhr University Bochum13, Charles University in Prague14, University of Namibia15
TL;DR: The distribution in Galactic latitude of the detected sources appears to be consistent with a scale height in the Galactic disk for the parent population smaller than 100 pc, consistent with expectations for supernova remnants and/or pulsar wind nebulae.
Abstract: We report on a survey of the inner part of the Galactic plane in very high energy gamma rays with the H.E.S.S. Cerenkov telescope system. The Galactic plane between +/-30° in longitude and +/-3° in latitude relative to the Galactic center was observed in 500 pointings for a total of 230 hr, reaching an average flux sensitivity of 2% of the Crab Nebula at energies above 200 GeV. Fourteen previously unknown sources were detected at a significance level greater than 4 σ after accounting for all trials involved in the search. Initial results on the eight most significant of these sources were already reported elsewhere (Aharonian and coworkers). Here we present detailed spectral and morphological information for all the new sources, along with a discussion on possible counterparts in other wavelength bands. The distribution in Galactic latitude of the detected sources appears to be consistent with a scale height in the Galactic disk for the parent population smaller than 100 pc, consistent with expectations for supernova remnants and/or pulsar wind nebulae.
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TL;DR: The detection of emission up to ∼31 GeV from the distant and short GRB, and no evidence for the violation of Lorentz invariance is found, which disfavour quantum-gravity theories in which the quantum nature of space–time on a very small scale linearly alters the speed of light.
Abstract: A cornerstone of Einstein's special relativity is Lorentz invariance-the postulate that all observers measure exactly the same speed of light in vacuum, independent of photon-energy. While special relativity assumes that there is no fundamental length-scale associated with such invariance, there is a fundamental scale (the Planck scale, l(Planck) approximate to 1.62 x 10(-33) cm or E(Planck) = M(Planck)c(2) approximate to 1.22 x 10(19) GeV), at which quantum effects are expected to strongly affect the nature of space-time. There is great interest in the (not yet validated) idea that Lorentz invariance might break near the Planck scale. A key test of such violation of Lorentz invariance is a possible variation of photon speed with energy(1-7). Even a tiny variation in photon speed, when accumulated over cosmological light-travel times, may be revealed by observing sharp features in gamma-ray burst (GRB) light-curves(2). Here we report the detection of emission up to similar to 31GeV from the distant and short GRB090510. We find no evidence for the violation of Lorentz invariance, and place a lower limit of 1.2E(Planck) on the scale of a linear energy dependence (or an inverse wavelength dependence), subject to reasonable assumptions about the emission (equivalently we have an upper limit of l(Planck)/1.2 on the length scale of the effect). Our results disfavour quantum-gravity theories(3,6,7) in which the quantum nature of space-time on a very small scale linearly alters the speed of light.
586 citations
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TL;DR: It is found that VO2 is not a conventional Mott insulator, but that the formation of dynamical V-V singlet pairs due to strong Coulomb correlations is necessary to trigger the opening of a Peierls gap.
Abstract: A theory of the metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide from the high- temperature rutile to the low- temperature monoclinic phase is proposed on the basis of cluster dynamical mean-field theory, in conjunction with the density functional scheme. The interplay of strong electronic Coulomb interactions and structural distortions, in particular, the dimerization of vanadium atoms in the low-temperature phase, plays a crucial role. We find that ${\mathrm{V}\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ is not a conventional Mott insulator, but that the formation of dynamical V-V singlet pairs due to strong Coulomb correlations is necessary to trigger the opening of a Peierls gap.
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Michael Grätzel | 248 | 1423 | 303599 |
Jing Wang | 184 | 4046 | 202769 |
David L. Kaplan | 177 | 1944 | 146082 |
Lorenzo Bianchini | 152 | 1516 | 106970 |
David D'Enterria | 150 | 1592 | 116210 |
Vivek Sharma | 150 | 3030 | 136228 |
Melody A. Swartz | 148 | 1304 | 103753 |
Edward G. Lakatta | 146 | 858 | 88637 |
Carlo Rovelli | 146 | 1502 | 103550 |
Marc Besancon | 143 | 1799 | 106869 |
Maksym Titov | 139 | 1573 | 128335 |
Jean-Paul Kneib | 138 | 805 | 89287 |
Yves Sirois | 137 | 1334 | 95714 |
Maria Spiropulu | 135 | 1455 | 96674 |
Shaik M. Zakeeruddin | 133 | 453 | 76010 |