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1425 poster LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES FOR PROTON AND ION-BEAM RADIOTHERAPY: AN UPDATE FROM THE LIBRA CONSORTIUM

scholarly article by S. Green et al published May 2011 in Radiotherapy and Oncology

A compact broadband ion beam focusing device based on laser-driven megagauss thermoelectric magnetic fields.

scientific article published on April 2015

A laser driven pulsed X-ray backscatter technique for enhanced penetrative imaging.

scientific article published in December 2015

A new algorithm for spectral and spatial reconstruction of proton beams from dosimetric measurements

A new energy spectrum reconstruction method for time-of-flight diagnostics of high-energy laser-driven protons

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Absorption of subpicosecond UV laser pulses during interaction with solid targets.

scientific article

Achieving Stable Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Heavy Ions via Successive Electron Replenishment from Ionization of a High-Z Material Coating.

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Advanced strategies for ion acceleration using high-power lasers

Analyzing laser plasma interferograms with a continuous wavelet transform ridge extraction technique: the method.

scientific article

Angularly resolved characterization of ion beams from laser-ultrathin foil interactions

Application of novel techniques for interferogram analysis to laser–plasma femtosecond probing

Application of proton radiography in experiments of relevance to inertial confinement fusion

scholarly article in European Physical Journal D, vol. 55 no. 2, April 2009

Azimuthal asymmetry in collective electron dynamics in relativistically transparent laser–foil interactions

Ballistic focusing of polyenergetic protons driven by petawatt laser pulses

scientific article published on 2 June 2011

Beamed neutron emission driven by laser accelerated light ions

Buffered high charge spectrally-peaked proton beams in the relativistic-transparency regime

CR-39 track detector for multi-MeV ion spectroscopy

scientific article

Calibration of BAS-TR image plate response to high energy (3-300 MeV) carbon ions.

scientific article published in December 2015

Calibration of Thomson parabola—MCP assembly for multi-MeV ion spectroscopy

article published in 2010

Calibration of time of flight detectors using laser-driven neutron source.

scientific article published on July 2015

Carbon ion acceleration from thin foil targets irradiated by ultrahigh-contrast, ultraintense laser pulses

Characterisation of deuterium spectra from laser driven multi-species sources by employing differentially filtered image plate detectors in Thomson spectrometers

scientific article

Characterization of a picosecond laser generated 4.5keV TiK-alpha source for pulsed radiography

scientific article published in July 2005

Characterization of laser plasmas for interaction studies: Progress in time-resolved density mapping

scientific article

Charge equilibrium of a laser-generated carbon-ion beam in warm dense matter

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Cocoon formation by a mildly relativistic pair jet in unmagnetized collisionless electron-proton plasma

Coherent x-ray generation in relativistic laser/gas jet interactions

Coherent x-ray production via pulse reflection from laser-driven dense electron sheets

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Complementary ion and extreme ultra-violet spectrometer for laser-plasma diagnosis

scientific article

Comprehensive numerical modelling of the performance of a second harmonic generation stage coupled with a low-gain optical parametric amplifier

Comprehensive numerical modelling of the performance of a second harmonic generation stage coupled with a low-gain optical parametric amplifier

Conditions for efficient and stable ion acceleration by moderate circularly polarized laser pulses at intensities of 1020 W/cm2

Corrigendum to “Instrumentation for diagnostics and control of laser-accelerated proton (ion) beams” [Phys Med 30 (2014) 255–270]

scholarly article published in Physica Medica

Corrigendum: Advanced strategies for ion acceleration using high-power lasers (2013 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 55 124020)

scholarly article published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Creation of persistent, straight, 2 mm long laser driven channels in underdense plasmas

DNA DSB Repair Dynamics following Irradiation with Laser-Driven Protons at Ultra-High Dose Rates

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Detailed characterization of laser-produced astrophysically-relevant jets formed via a poloidal magnetic nozzle

Diagnostics and Dosimetry Solutions for Multidisciplinary Applications at the ELIMAIA Beamline

Dominance of Radiation Pressure in Ion Acceleration with Linearly Polarized Pulses at Intensities of1021 W cm−2

scientific article published on March 12, 2012

Dosimetry and spectral analysis of a radiobiological experiment using laser-driven proton beams

scientific article

Dual Ion Species Plasma Expansion from Isotopically Layered Cryogenic Targets

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Dynamic control of laser-produced proton beams

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Dynamics of charge-displacement channeling in intense laser–plasma interactions

article published in 2007

Dynamics of electric fields driving the laser acceleration of multi-MeV protons.

scientific article published on 31 October 2005

Dynamics of self-generated, large amplitude magnetic fields following high-intensity laser matter interaction

scientific article published on 13 November 2012

Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Fields Induced by Fast Electron Propagation in Near-Solid-Density Media

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

ELIMAIA: A Laser-Driven Ion Accelerator for Multidisciplinary Applications

ELIMED: a new hadron therapy concept based on laser driven ion beams

Effect of plasma scale length on multi-MeV proton production by intense laser pulses

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Effect of self-generated magnetic fields on fast-electron beam divergence in solid targets

Efficient post-acceleration of protons in helical coil targets driven by sub-ps laser pulses.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Electric field detection in laser-plasma interaction experiments via the proton imaging technique

article published in 2002

Employing laser-accelerated proton beams to diagnose high intensity laser-plasma interactions

Enhanced laser-driven proton-acceleration from limited mass targets by high temporal contrast ultra-intense lasers

Enhanced proton beam collimation in the ultra-intense short pulse regime

Enhancement of Quasistationary Shocks and Heating via Temporal Staging in a Magnetized Laser-Plasma Jet.

scientific article

Erratum: “Magnetic field generation during intense laser channelling in underdense plasma” [Phys. Plasmas 23, 063121 (2016)]

scholarly article published in Physics of Plasmas

Erratum: “MeV negative ion generation from ultra-intense laser interaction with a water spray” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 051501 (2011)]

scholarly article published in Applied Physics Letters

Ethanol (C2H5OH) spray of sub-micron droplets for laser driven negative ion source

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Evaluation of a foam buffer target design for spatially uniform ablation of laser-irradiated plasmas

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Evolution of slow electrostatic shock into a plasma shock mediated by electrostatic turbulence

Expansion of a radial plasma blast shell into an ambient plasma

Expansion of a radially symmetric blast shell into a uniformly magnetized plasma

Experimental Observation of a Current-Driven Instability in a Neutral Electron-Positron Beam.

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Experimental demonstration of a compact epithermal neutron source based on a high power laser

Experimental evaluation of the response of micro-channel plate detector to ions with 10s of MeV energies

scientific article

Experimental investigation of hole boring and light sail regimes of RPA by varying laser and target parameters

Fast heating of wire target attached on entrant hollow cone with ultra-intense laser up to keV order

Fast ion acceleration from thin foils irradiated by ultra-high intensity, ultra-high contrast laser pulses

Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Cluster-Based Plasma Source for High-Resolution Ionography

Field dynamics and filament growth following high-intensity laser-solid interactions

Focusing dynamics of high-energy density, laser-driven ion beams

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Gamma-ray measurements in relativistic interaction with underdense plasmas

Gated ion spectrometer for spectroscopy of neutral particles.

scientific article published in August 2017

Generation of a Purely Electrostatic Collisionless Shock during the Expansion of a Dense Plasma through a Rarefied Medium

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Generation of high contrast and high spatial quality idler from a low-gain optical parametric amplifier

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Generation of overdense and high-energy electron-positron-pair plasmas by irradiation of a thin foil with two ultraintense lasers.

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Guided post-acceleration of laser-driven ions by a miniature modular structure

scientific article

HIGH BRIGHTNESS LASER INDUCED MULTI-MEV ELECTRON/PROTON SOURCES

High order harmonics from relativistic electron spikes

High resolution Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for full spectral capture of multi-species ion beams

scientific article

High-energy electron beam production by femtosecond laser interactions with exploding-foil plasmas

scientific article

High-intensity laser-plasma interaction studies employing laser-driven proton probes

scientific article published on 30 August 2005

High-order harmonics from bow wave caustics driven by a high-intensity laser

Highly efficient relativistic-ion generation in the laser-piston regime

scientific article published on 27 April 2004

Hot Electrons Transverse Refluxing in Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Hot and Cold Electron Dynamics Following High-Intensity Laser Matter Interaction

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Impulsive electric fields driven by high-intensity laser matter interactions

Influence of laser polarization on collective electron dynamics in ultraintense laser–foil interactions

Instrumentation for diagnostics and control of laser-accelerated proton (ion) beams.

scientific article

Intra-pulse transition between ion acceleration mechanisms in intense laser-foil interactions

article published in 2016

Investigations of DNA damage induction and repair resulting from cellular exposure to high dose-rate pulsed proton beams

Ion acceleration and plasma jet formation in ultra-thin foils undergoing expansion and relativistic transparency

Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

Ion acceleration from the shock front induced by hole boring in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions

scientific article published on 29 October 2004

Ion acceleration in multispecies targets driven by intense laser radiation pressure.

scientific article published on 2 November 2012

Ion source development and radiobiology applications within the LIBRA project

Ionography of Submicron Foils and Nanostructures Using Ion Flow Generated in FS-Laser Cluster Plasma

Ionography of nanostructures with the use of a laser plasma of cluster targets

Laboratory formation of a scaled protostellar jet by coaligned poloidal magnetic field

scientific article

Laboratory unraveling of matter accretion in young stars.

scientific article published in November 2017

Laser-Driven Proton Beams: Acceleration Mechanism, Beam Optimization, and Radiographic Applications

Laser-Driven Ultrafast Field Propagation on Solid Surfaces

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Laser-Foil Acceleration of High-Energy Protons in Small-Scale Plasma Gradients

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Laser-accelerated ion beam diagnostics with TOF detectors for the ELIMED beam line

Laser-driven proton acceleration and applications: Recent results

Laser-driven shock waves for the study of extreme matter states

scientific article

Laser-produced protons and their application as a particle probe

Laser-produced protons and their application as a particle probe

Macroscopic evidence of soliton formation in multiterawatt laser-plasma interaction

scientific article published on 14 March 2002

Magnetic field generation during intense laser channelling in underdense plasma

Magnetic field measurements in laser-produced plasmas via proton deflectometry

Magnetic field suppression in collision-less shocks generated during the expansion of a dense plasma into a rarefied medium

article by Gianluca Sarri et al published 2012 in EAS Publications Series

Magnetic instability in a dilute circular rarefaction wave

MeV negative ion generation from ultra-intense laser interaction with a water spray

MeV negative ion source from ultra-intense laser-matter interaction

scientific article

Measurement of highly transient electrical charging following high-intensity laser–solid interaction

Modification of the formation of high-Mach number electrostatic shock-like structures by the ion acoustic instability

Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources.

scientific article

Modified proton radiography arrangement for the detection of ultrafast field fronts.

scientific article

Multi-MeV proton source investigations in ultraintense laser-foil interactions

scientific article published on 05 February 2004

Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

New source of MeV negative ion and neutral atom beams

scientific article

Numerical study of neutron beam divergence in a beam-fusion scenario employing laser driven ions

Observation and characterization of laser-driven phase space electron holes

Observation of Postsoliton Expansion Following Laser Propagation through an Underdense Plasma

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Observation of Quasi Mono-Energetic Protons in Laser Spray-Target Interaction

Observation of collisionless shocks in laser-plasma experiments.

scientific article published on 10 July 2008

Observation of magnetized soliton remnants in the wake of intense laser pulse propagation through plasmas

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Observation of plasma density dependence of electromagnetic soliton excitation by an intense laser pulse

Observation of the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of MeV ions accelerated by the hydrodynamic ambipolar expansion of clusters

Observation of the transient charging of a laser-irradiated solid

scholarly article in European Physical Journal D, vol. 55 no. 2, March 2009

On the investigation of fast electron beam filamentation in laser-irradiated solid targets using multi-MeV proton emission

Optically controlled dense current structures driven by relativistic plasma aperture-induced diffraction

Optimization of flat-cone targets for enhanced laser-acceleration of protons

scientific article published in August 2010

PIC simulation of a thermal anisotropy-driven Weibel instability in a circular rarefaction wave

Parametric study of non-relativistic electrostatic shocks and the structure of their transition layer

Particle simulation study of electron heating by counter-streaming ion beams ahead of supernova remnant shocks

Particle-in-cell simulation study of a lower-hybrid shock

Particle-in-cell simulation study of the interaction between a relativistically moving leptonic micro-cloud and ambient electrons

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Picosecond metrology of laser-driven proton bursts

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Plasma ion evolution in the wake of a high-intensity ultrashort laser pulse

scientific article published on 17 May 2005

Plasma jets driven by ultraintense-laser interaction with thin foils.

scientific article published on 4 June 2008

Polarization Dependence of Bulk Ion Acceleration from Ultrathin Foils Irradiated by High-Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Production of ultracollimated bunches of multi-MeV electrons by 35 fs laser pulses propagating in exploding-foil plasmas

Progress in proton radiography for diagnosis of ICF-relevant plasmas

Propagation issues and fast particle source characterization in laser-plasma interactions at intensities exceeding 10 19 W/cm 2

Propagation of relativistic electrons in low density foam targets

Properties of a plasma-based laser-triggered micro-lens

Proton acceleration enhanced by a plasma jet in expanding foils undergoing relativistic transparency

Proton acceleration using 50fs, high intensity ASTRA-Gemini laser pulses

Proton imaging detection of transient electromagnetic fields in laser-plasma interactions (invited)

article published in 2003

Proton probing measurement of electric and magnetic fields generated by ns and ps laser-matter interactions

Proton radiography of a laser-driven implosion

scientific article published on 24 July 2006

Proton radiography of a shock-compressed target

scientific article

Quantitative study of the ionization-induced refraction of picosecond laser pulses in gas-jet targets

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Radiation Pressure-Driven Plasma Surface Dynamics in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulse Interactions with Ultra-Thin Foils

Radiation-Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams from Nanofoil Targets: The Leaky Light-Sail Regime

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Relativistic Current Dynamics Investigations By Proton Probing

Relativistic high harmonic generation in gas jet targets

Relativistic laser interactions with preformed plasma channels and gamma-ray measurements

Relativistic laser propagation through underdense and overdense plasmas

Relativistic plasma surfaces as an efficient second harmonic generator

Scaling of ion spectral peaks in the hybrid RPA-TNSA region

Shock creation and particle acceleration driven by plasma expansion into a rarefied medium

Shocks in unmagnetized plasma with a shear flow: Stability and magnetic field generation

article published in 2015

Simulation of a collisionless planar electrostatic shock in a proton–electron plasma with a strong initial thermal pressure change

Simulation of relativistically colliding laser-generated electron flows

Soft-x-ray harmonic comb from relativistic electron spikes

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

Space- and Time-Resolved Dynamics of Fast Electrons and of the Energy Partition Into Cold Electrons

Spatially resolved measurements of laser filamentation in long scale length underdense plasmas with and without beam smoothing.

scientific article published on 28 February 2011

Spectral and angular characterization of laser-produced proton beams from dosimetric measurements

Stable GeV ion-beam acceleration from thin foils by circularly polarized laser pulses

scientific article published on 08 April 2009

Study of electron-beam propagation through preionized dense foam plasmas

scientific article published on 16 May 2005

Submicron ionography of nanostructures using a femtosecond-laser-driven-cluster-based source

Summary of Working Group 2: Ion beams from plasmas

Superthermal and Efficient-Heating Modes in the Interaction of a Cone Target with Ultraintense Laser Light

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Surface modulation and back reflection from foil targets irradiated by a Petawatt femtosecond laser pulse at oblique incidence.

scientific article

Temporal Narrowing of Neutrons Produced by High-Intensity Short-Pulse Lasers

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

The European Joint Research Project UHDpulse - Metrology for advanced radiotherapy using particle beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

The TARANIS laser : A multi-terawatt system for laser plasma physics

The TARANIS laser: A multi-Terawatt system for laser-plasma investigations

The application of laser-driven proton beams to the radiography of intense laser–hohlraum interactions

The effect of positively chirped laser pulse on energy enhancement of proton acceleration in combinational radiation pressure and bubble regime

The radiobiology of laser-driven particle beams: focus on sub-lethal responses of normal human cells

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Thin-shell instability in collisionless plasma

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Thomson spectrometer-microchannel plate assembly calibration for MeV-range positive and negative ions, and neutral atoms

scientific article

Ti Kα radiography of Cu-doped plastic microshell implosions via spherically bent crystal imaging

scientific article published on 9 May 2005

Time and space resolved interferometry for detecting plasma expansion from solid targets

Time of Flight based diagnostics for high energy laser driven ion beams

Time-resolved characterization of the formation of a collisionless shock.

scientific article

Topology of megagauss magnetic fields and of heat-carrying electrons produced in a high-power laser-solid interaction

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Towards optical polarization control of laser-driven proton acceleration in foils undergoing relativistic transparency

scientific article

Transition to Filamentary Regime in Laser-Plasma Interaction Evidenced by 2ω Emission

Transport of hot electron currents in solid targets irradiated by high intensity short laser pulses

scientific article published in August 2010

Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of the expansion of a plasma into a rarefied medium

Ultrafast Charge Dynamics Initiated by High-Intensity, Ultrashort Laser-Matter Interaction

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Ultrafast laser-driven microlens to focus and energy-select mega-electron volt protons

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Weibel-Induced Filamentation during an Ultrafast Laser-Driven Plasma Expansion

scientific article published on March 26, 2012