Physics of Ignition: Collaboration with the National Ignition Facility: Diagnosing hot-spot mix via X-ray spectroscopy

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• 27 Article
• 2 Comment/debate
• 1 Review article

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• 2023

  Characterization of hot electrons generated by laser-plasma interaction at shock ignition intensities

  Filippov, E. D., Khan, M., Tentori, A., Gajdos, P., Martynenko, A. S., Dudzak, R., Koester, P., Zeraouli, G., Mancelli, D., Baffigi, F., Gizzi, L. A., Pikuz, S. A., Nicolaï, P. D., Woolsey, N. C., Fedosejevs, R., Krus, M., Juha, L., Batani, D., Renner, O. & Cristoforetti, G., 1 Nov 2023, In: Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 8, 6, 16 p., 065602.

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• Guided electromagnetic discharge pulses driven by short intense laser pulses: Characterization and modeling

  Ehret, M., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Korneev, P., Apiñaniz, J. I., Brabetz, C., Morace, A., Bradford, P., D'Humières, E., Schaumann, G., Bagnoud, V., Malko, S., Matveevskii, K., Roth, M., Volpe, L., Woolsey, N. C. & Santos, J. J., 10 Jan 2023, In: Physics of Plasmas. 30, 1, 16 p., 013105.

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• Investigation on the origin of hot electrons in laser plasma interaction at shock ignition intensities

  Cristoforetti, G., Baffigi, F., Batani, D., Dudzak, R., Fedosejevs, R., Filippov, E. D., Gajdos, P., Juha, L., Khan, M., Koester, P., Krus, M., Mancelli, D., Martynenko, A. S., Nicolai, P., Pikuz, S. A., Renner, O., Tentori, A., Volpe, L., Woolsey, N., Zeraouli, G., & 1 othersGizzi, L. A., 24 Nov 2023, In: Scientific reports. 13, 1, 20681.

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• Measurement of magnetic cavitation driven by heat flow in a plasma

  Arran, C., Dearling, A., Bradford, P., Hicks, G. S., Al-Atabi, S., Antonelli, L., Ettlinger, O. C., Khan, M., Read, M. P., Glize, K., Notley, M., Walsh, C. A., Kingham, R. J., Najmudin, Z., Ridgers, C. P. & Woolsey, N. C., 6 Jul 2023, In: Physical Review Letters. 131, 7 p., 015101.

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• 2022

  Cylindrical implosion platform for the study of highly magnetized plasmas at Laser MegaJoule

  Pérez-Callejo, G., Vlachos, C., Walsh, C. A., Florido, R., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Vaisseau, X., Suzuki-Vidal, F., McGuffey, C., Beg, F. N., Bradford, P., Ospina-Bohórquez, V., Batani, D., Raffestin, D., Colaïtis, A., Tikhonchuk, V., Casner, A., Koenig, M., Albertazzi, B., Fedosejevs, R., Woolsey, N., & 10 othersEhret, M., Debayle, A., Loiseau, P., Calisti, A., Ferri, S., Honrubia, J., Kingham, R., Mancini, R. C., Gigosos, M. A. & Santos, J. J., 19 Sept 2022, In: Physical Review E. 106, 3, 15 p., 035206.

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• Role of hot electrons in shock ignition constrained by experiment at the National Ignition Facility

  Barlow, D., Goffrey, T., Bennett, K., Scott, R. H. H., Glize, K., Theobald, W., Anderson, K., Solodov, A. A., Rosenberg, M. J., Hohenberger, M., Woolsey, N. C., Bradford, P., Khan, M. & Arber, T. D., 23 Aug 2022, In: Physics of Plasmas. 29, 8, 082704.

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• Self-heating plasmas offer hope for energy from fusion

  Woolsey, N., 26 Jan 2022, In: Nature. 601, 7894, p. 514-515 2 p.

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• Shock-Augmented Ignition Approach to Laser Inertial Fusion

  Barlow, D., Trickey, W., Ruocco, A., Glize, K., Antonelli, L., Khan, M. & Woolsey, N. C., 4 Nov 2022, In: Physical Review Letters. 129, 19, 6 p., 195001.

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• 2021

  Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy

  Martynenko, A. S., Skobelev, I. Y., Pikuz, S. A., Ryazantsev, S. N., Baird, C., Booth, N., Doehl, L., Durey, P., Farley, D., Kodama, R., Lancaster, K., McKenna, P., Murphy, C., Spindloe, C., Pikuz, T. A. & Woolsey, N., Mar 2021, In: HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS. 38, 100924.

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• Experimental characterization of hot-electron emission and shock dynamics in the context of the shock ignition approach to inertial confinement fusion

  Tentori, A., Colaitis, A., Theobald, W., Casner, A., Raffestin, D., Ruocco, A., Trela, J., Le Bel, E., Anderson, K., Wei, M., Henderson, B., Peebles, J., Scott, R., Baton, S., Pikuz, S. A., Betti, R., Khan, M., Woolsey, N., Zhang, S. & Batani, D., 12 Oct 2021, In: Physics of Plasmas. 28, 10, 103302.

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• Measuring magnetic fields in laser-driven coils with dual-axis proton deflectometry

  Bradford, P., Dearling, A., Ehret, M., Antonelli, L., Booth, N., Carroll, D. C., Clarke, R. J., Glize, K., Heathcote, R., Khan, M., Moody, J. D., Pikuz, S., Pollock, B. B., Read, M. P., Ryazantsev, S., Spindloe, C., Ridgers, C. P., Santos, J. J., Tikhonchuk, V. T. & Woolsey, N. C., Aug 2021, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 63, 8, 13 p., 084008.

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• Observation and modelling of stimulated Raman scattering driven by an optically smoothed laser beam in experimental conditions relevant for shock ignition

  Cristoforetti, G., Hüller, S., Koester, P., Antonelli, L., Atzeni, S., Baffigi, F., Batani, D., Baird, C., Booth, N., Galimberti, M., Glize, K., Héron, A., Khan, M., Loiseau, P., Mancelli, D., Notley, M., Oliveira, P., Renner, O., Smid, M., Schiavi, A., & 3 othersTran, G., Woolsey, N. C. & Gizzi, L. A., 18 Oct 2021, In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 9, e60.

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• Observations of pressure anisotropy effects within semi-collisional magnetized plasma bubbles

  Tubman, E. R., Joglekar, A. S., Bott, A. F. A., Borghesi, M., Coleman, B., Cooper, G., Danson, C. N., Durey, P., Foster, J. M., Graham, P., Gregori, G., Gumbrell, E. T., Hill, M. P., Hodge, T., Kar, S., Kingham, R. J., Read, M., Ridgers, C. P., Skidmore, J., Spindloe, C., & 5 othersThomas, A. G. R., Treadwell, P., Wilson, S., Willingale, L. & Woolsey, N. C., 12 Jan 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 9 p., 334.

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• Optimization of a laser plasma-based x-ray source according to WDM absorption spectroscopy requirements

  Martynenko, A. S., Pikuz, S. A., Skobelev, I. Y., Ryazantsev, S. N., Baird, C. D., Booth, N., Döhl, L. N. K., Durey, P., Faenov, A. Y., Farley, D., Kodama, R., Lancaster, K., McKenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Spindloe, C., Pikuz, T. A. & Woolsey, N., 1 Jan 2021, In: Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 6, 1, 9 p., 014405.

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• Proton radiography in background magnetic fields

  Arran, C., Ridgers, C. P. & Woolsey, N. C., 1 Jul 2021, In: Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 6, 4, 7 p., 046904.

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• Shock Ignition Laser-Plasma Interactions in Ignition-Scale Plasmas

  Scott, R. H. H., Glize, K., Antonelli, L., Khan, M., Theobald, W., Wei, M., Betti, R., Stoeckl, C., Seaton, A. G., Arber, T. D., Barlow, D., Goffrey, T., Bennett, K., Garbett, W., Atzeni, S., Casner, A., Batani, D., Li, C. & Woolsey, N., 6 Aug 2021, In: Physical Review Letters. 127, 6, 6 p., 065001.

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• 2020

  Author Correction: Quantitative phase contrast imaging of a shock-wave with a laser-plasma based X-ray source (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (18805), 10.1038/s41598-019-55074-1)

  Barbato, F., Atzeni, S., Batani, D., Bleiner, D., Boutoux, G., Brabetz, C., Bradford, P., Mancelli, D., Neumayer, P., Schiavi, A., Trela, J., Volpe, L., Zeraouli, G., Woolsey, N. & Antonelli, L., 12 May 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 8100.

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• Electromagnetic pulse emission from target holders during short-pulse laser interactions

  Minenna, D. F. G., Poyé, A., Bradford, P., Woolsey, N. & Tikhonchuk, V. T., 9 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Physics of Plasmas. 27, 6, 063102.

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• Improved fast electron transport through the use of foam guides

  Alraddadi, R. A. B., Robinson, A. P. L. & Woolsey, N. C., 1 Sept 2020, In: Physics of Plasmas. 27, 7 p., 092701.

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• Laser produced electromagnetic pulses: Generation, detection and mitigation

  Consoli, F., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Bardon, M., Bradford, P., Carroll, D. C., Cikhardt, J., Cikhardt, J., Cipriani, M., Clarke, R. J., Cowan, T. E., Danson, C. N., Danson, C. N., Danson, C. N., De Angelis, R., De Marco, M., Dubois, J. L., Etchessahar, B., Garcia, A. L., Hillier, D. I., & 24 othersHillier, D. I., Honsa, A., Jiang, W., Kmetik, V., Krása, J., Li, Y., Li, Y., Lubrano, F., McKenna, P., Metzkes-Ng, J., Poyé, A., Prencipe, I., Rączka, P., Smith, R. A., Vrana, R., Woolsey, N. C., Zemaityte, E., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zielbauer, B., Neely, D., Neely, D. & Neely, D., 9 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 8, e22, e22.

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• Proton deflectometry of a capacitor coil target along two axes

  Bradford, P., Read, M. P., Ehret, M., Antonelli, L., Khan, M., Booth, N., Glize, K., Carroll, D., Clarke, R. J., Heathcote, R., Ryazantsev, S., Pikuz, S., Spindloe, C., Moody, J. D., Pollock, B. B., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Ridgers, C. P., Santos, J. J. & Woolsey, N. C., 2 Apr 2020, In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 8, 9 p., e11.

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• 2019

  Features of the generation of fast particles from microstructured targets irradiated by high intensity, picosecond laser pulses

  Sedov, M. V., Faenov, A. Y., Andreev, A. A., Skobelev, I. Y., Ryazantsev, S. N., Pikuz, T. A., Durey, P., Doehl, L., Farley, D., Baird, C. D., Lancaster, K. L., Murphy, C. D., Booth, N., Spindloe, C., Platonov, K. Y., Mckenna, P., Kodama, R., Woolsey, N. & Pikuz, S. A., 23 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Laser and Particle Beams.

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• Propagation-based imaging phase-contrast enhanced imaging setup for single shot acquisition using laser-generated X-ray sources

  Barbato, F., Batani, D., Mancelli, D., Trela, J., Zeraouli, G., Boutoux, G., Neumayer, P., Atzeni, S., Schiavi, A., Volpe, L., Bagnoud, V., Brabetz, C., Zielbauer, B., Bradford, P., Woolsey, N., Borm, B. & Antonelli, L., 15 Mar 2019, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 14, 3, C03005.

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• Quantitative phase contrast imaging of a shock-wave with a laser-plasma based X-ray source

  Barbato, F., Atzeni, S., Batani, D., Bleiner, D., Boutoux, G., Brabetz, C., Bradford, P., Mancelli, D., Neumayer, P., Schiavi, A., Trela, J., Volpe, L., Zeraouli, G., Woolsey, N. & Antonelli, L., 1 Dec 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 18805.

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• X-ray phase-contrast imaging for laser-induced shock waves

  Antonelli, L., Barbato, F., Mancelli, D., Trela, J., Zeraouli, G., Boutoux, G., Neumayer, P., Atzeni, S., Schiavi, A., Volpe, L., Bagnoud, V., Brabetz, C., Zielbauer, B., Bradford, P., Woolsey, N., Borm, B. & Batani, D., 4 Mar 2019, In: EPL. 125, 3, 5 p., 35002.

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• 2018

  Crossed-beam energy transfer: Polarization effects and evidence of saturation

  Turnbull, D., Colaïtis, A., Follett, R. K., Palastro, J. P., Froula, D. H., Michel, P., Goyon, C., Chapman, T., Divol, L., Kemp, G. E., Mariscal, D., Patankar, S., Pollock, B. B., Ross, S. J., Moody, J. D., Tubman, E. R. & Woolsey, N. C., 5 Apr 2018, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60, 5, 10 p., 054017.

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• Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics

  Santos, J. J., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Ehret, M., Arefiev, A. V., Batani, D., Beg, F. N., Calisti, A., Ferri, S., Florido, R., Forestier-Colleoni, P., Fujioka, S., Gigosos, M. A., Giuffrida, L., Gremillet, L., Honrubia, J. J., Kojima, S., Korneev, P., Law, K. F. F., Marquès, J. R., Morace, A., & 11 othersMossé, C., Peyrusse, O., Rose, S., Roth, M., Sakata, S., Schaumann, G., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Toncian, T., Woolsey, N. & Zhang, Z., 1 May 2018, In: Physics of Plasmas. 25, 5, 056705.

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• X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of energy transport in foil targets heated by petawatt laser pulses

  Skobelev, I. Y., Ryazantsev, S. N., Arich, D. D., Bratchenko, P. S., Faenov, A. Y. ., Pikuz, T. A., Durey, P., Doehl, L., Farley, D., Baird, C. D., Lancaster, K. L., Murphy, C. D., Booth, N., Spindloe, C., McKenna, P., Hansen, S. B., Colgan, J., Kodama, R., Woolsey, N. & Pikuz, S. A., 2 Mar 2018, In: Photonics Research. 6, 4, p. 234-237 4 p.

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• 2017

  In-depth study of intra-Stark spectroscopy in the x-ray range in relativistic laser-plasma interactions

  Oks, E., Dalimier, E., Faenov, A. Y. ., Angelo, P., Pikuz, S. A., Pikuz, T. A., Skobelev, I. Y., Ryazanzev, S. N., Durey, P., Doehl, L., Farley, D., Baird, C., Lancaster, K. L., Murphy, C. D., Booth, N., Spindloe, C., McKenna, P., Neumann, N., Roth, M., Kodama, R., & 1 othersWoolsey, N., 22 Nov 2017, In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 50, 24, 8 p., 245006.

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• Simultaneous diagnosis of radial profiles and mix in NIF ignition-scale implosions via X-ray spectroscopy

  Ciricosta, O., Scott, H., Durey, P., Hammel, B. A., Epstein, R., Preston, T. R., Regan, S. P., Vinko, S. M., Woolsey, N. C. & Wark, J. S., 6 Nov 2017, In: Physics of Plasmas. 24, 11, p. 1-9 9 p., 112703.

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