Intense laser-plasma interactions: New frontiers in high energy density physics
- STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0411, La Jolla, California 92093-0411 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557 (United States)
- Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1049-001 Lisboa (Portugal)
- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ (United Kingdom)
A review is presented here of a number of invited papers presented at the 2008 American Physical Society April meeting [held jointly with High Energy Density Physics/High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDP/HEDLA) Conference] devoted to intense laser-matter interactions. They include new insights gained from wave-kinetic theory into laser-wakefield accelerators and drift wave turbulence interacting with zonal flows in magnetized plasmas; interactions with cluster media for the generation of radiative blast waves; fast electron energy transport in cone-wire targets; numerical investigations into Weibel instability in electron-positron-ion plasmas and the generation of gigabar pressures with thin foil interactions.
- OSTI ID:
- 21276966
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 16, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3101813; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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