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Laser-Plasma Ion Acceleration

ORAL · JO07 · ID: 3588723

Presentations

  • High-Repetition-Rate Proton Acceleration Above 20 MeV from a Liquid Microjet at L3-HAPLS

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    Publication: Treffert, F., et al, Physics of Plasmas 29, 123105 (2022).<br>Loughran, B., et al, High Power Laser Science and Engineering 11, e35 (2023).<br>Streeter, M.J.V., et al. Stable laser-acceleration of high-flux proton beams with plasma collimation. Nat Commun 16, 1004 (2025).

    Presenters

    • Maxence Gauthier

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    Authors

    • Maxence Gauthier

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Griffin D Glenn

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Girik Jain

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Stefano Faubel

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Charlotte A Palmer

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Peter Parsons

      Queen's University Belfast

    • James Weeks

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Stefan Popa

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Daniel Ursescu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Raz H Levi

      Tel Aviv University

    • Milenko Vescovi

      Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

    • Martin Rehwald

      HZDR

    • Siegfried H Glenzer

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Lorenzo Giuffrida

      ELI Beamlines

    • Filip Grepl

      ELI Beamlines

    • Francesco Schillaci

      ELI Beamlines

    • Andriy Velyhan

      ELI Beamlines

    • Maksym Tyrus

      ELI Beamlines

    • Helena Lefebvre

      ELI Beamlines

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  • Improved Energy Scaling and Coupling in High-Repetition Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration

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    Presenters

    • Girik Jain

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    Authors

    • Girik Jain

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Griffin D Glenn

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Stefano Faubel

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Charlotte A Palmer

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Peter Parsons

      Queen's University Belfast

    • James Weeks

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Stefan Popa

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Daniel Ursescu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Raz H Levi

      Tel Aviv University

    • Milenko Vescovi

      Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

    • Martin Rehwald

      HZDR

    • Filip Grepl

      ELI Beamlines

    • Lorenzo Giuffrida

      ELI Beamlines

    • Francesco Schillaci

      ELI Beamlines

    • Andriy Velyhan

      ELI Beamlines

    • Maksym Tyrus

      ELI Beamlines

    • Helena Lefebvre

      ELI Beamlines

    • Maxence Gauthier

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Siegfried H Glenzer

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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  • High-stability proton beams accelerated in p-polarized interactions with converging liquid jet targets

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    Presenters

    • Griffin D Glenn

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    Authors

    • Griffin D Glenn

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Stefano Faubel

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Jhonnatan Gama Vazquez

      Stanford University - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Raz H Levi

      Tel Aviv University

    • Reed C Hollinger

      Colorado State University

    • Girik Jain

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Jim King

      Colorado State University

    • Charlotte A Palmer

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Peter Parsons

      Queen's University Belfast

    • Ishay Pomerantz

      Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    • Stefan Popa

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Jorge J Rocca

      Colorado State University

    • Franziska S Treffert

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Shoujun Wang

      Colorado State University

    • Sina Zahedpour Anaraki

      Colorado State University

    • Ghassan Zeraouli

      Colorado State University

    • Ping Zhang

      Colorado State University

    • Siegfried H Glenzer

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

    • Maxence Gauthier

      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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  • Proton acceleration from relativistically transparent solid targets at 400 nm

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    Presenters

    • Joshua Donovan Lewis

      University of California, Irvine

    Authors

    • Joshua Donovan Lewis

      University of California, Irvine

    • Victor Flores

      University of California, Irvine

    • Christopher Gardner

      University of California, Irvine

    • Hunter G Allison

      University of California, Irvine

    • Nicholas F Beier

      University of Alberta

    • Shubho Mohajan

      Univ of Alberta

    • Liam Droog

      University of Alberta

    • Ester Kriz

      McGill University

    • Kirk A Flippo

      Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

    • Lan Gao

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

    • Stephanie B Hansen

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Kenneth Wayne Hill

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

    • Reed C Hollinger

      Colorado State University

    • Shoujun Wang

      Colorado State University

    • Jim King

      Colorado State University

    • Sina Zahedpour Anaraki

      Colorado State University

    • Ghassan Zeraouli

      Colorado State University

    • Vigneshvar Senthilkumaran

      University of Alberta

    • Ronnie Lee Shepherd

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Vyacheslav N Shlyaptsev

      Colorado State University

    • Jorge J Rocca

      Colorado State University

    • Amina E Hussein

      Univ of Alberta

    • Franklin J Dollar

      University of California, Irvine

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  • High-flux ion acceleration in structured foam targets

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    Publication: Laser-driven designer two-photon 3D printed microstructures generate high-energy ion beams

    Presenters

    • Joshua Luoma

      Cornell University

    Authors

    • Joshua Luoma

      Cornell University

    • Andreas J Kemp

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Gennady Shvets

      Cornell University

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  • Ultra-Low Density Foam Targets for Enhanced Laser-Plasma Proton Acceleration

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    Publication: Development of Ultra-Low Density Foam Targets for Enhanced Laser-Plasma Proton Acceleration, A. Măgureanu, G. Dorcioman, P. Garoi, S.A. Irimiciuc, R. Udrea, P.-G. Bleotu, A. Zubarev, C. Jalbă, C. Gheorghiu, D.G. Ghiţă, B. Diaconescu, V. Crăciun, D. Ursescu, C.M. Ticoş, in preparation

    Presenters

    • Catalin M Ticos

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    Authors

    • Catalin M Ticos

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Alexandru Magureanu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Gabriela Dorcioman

      National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)

    • Petronela Garoi

      National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)

    • Stefan A Irimiciuc

      National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)

    • Radu Udrea

      National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)

    • Gabriel Bleotu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Alexei Zubarev

      National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)

    • Cosmin Jalba

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Dan G Ghita

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Bogdan Diaconescu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Cristina Gheorghiu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Valentine Craciun

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

    • Daniel Ursescu

      Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)

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  • Relativistically-Transparent Magnetic Filament Experiments at the BELLA iP2 Petawatt Laser

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    Presenters

    • Matthew Albert VanDusen-Gross

      University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics

    Authors

    • Matthew Albert VanDusen-Gross

      University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics

    • Soham Banerjee

      University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics

    • Veronica Contreras

    • Lulu Russell

      MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

    • Aodhan McIlvenny

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Lieselotte Obst-Huebl

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf

      European XFEL

    • Kale Weichman

      Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

    • Louise Willingale

    • Hans G Rinderknecht

      Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), University of Rochester

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  • Laser Wavelength Dependence of Electron and Ion Acceleration Mechanisms in High Intensity Laser-Solid Density Plasma Interactions

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    Presenters

    • Scott C Wilks

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Larence Livermore National Laboratory/North Wind, LLNL

    Authors

    • Scott C Wilks

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Larence Livermore National Laboratory/North Wind, LLNL

    • Andreas J Kemp

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Dean R Rusby

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Jackson G Williams

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Thomas Spinka

      Lawrence Livermore National Lbaoratory

    • Brendan Reagan

      Colorado State University

    • Vincent Tang

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Tammy Ma

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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  • 20-Dimensional surrogate-assisted Bayesian optimization of laser-driven proton beams

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    Publication: Elias Catrix, Sylvain Fourmaux, Simon Vallières, François Bianchi, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Joël Maltais, Steve MacLean, Patrizio Antici; 20-dimensional surrogate-assisted Bayesian optimization of laser-driven proton beams. Appl. Phys. Lett. 23 June 2025; 126 (25): 254104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0272789

    Presenters

    • Elias Catrix

      Institut national de la recherche scientifique

    Authors

    • Elias Catrix

      Institut national de la recherche scientifique

    • Sylvain Fourmaux

      INRS, Energy Materials and Telecommunications

    • Simon Vallières

      INRS, Energy Materials and Telecommunications

    • François Bianchi

      Institut national de la recherche scientifique

    • François Fillion-Gourdeau

      Infinite Potential Laboratories

    • Joël Maltais

      Institut national de la recherche scientifique

    • Steve MacLean

      Infinite Potential Laboratories

    • Patrizio Antici

      INRS - Energie et Materiaux

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  • Towards Intelligent Control of MeV Electrons and Protons from kHz Rep-Rate Ultra-Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions

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    Publication: N. Tamminga, S. Feister, K. Frische, R. Desai, J. Snyder, J. Felice, J. Smith, C. Orban, E.<br>Chowdhury, M. Dexter, A. Patnaik, APL Machine Learning 3, e2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253529

    Presenters

    • Nathaniel Tamminga

      The Ohio State University

    Authors

    • Nathaniel Tamminga

      The Ohio State University

    • Scott Feister

      California State University, Channel Islands

    • Kyle Frische

      Air Force Institute of Technology

    • Ronak Desai

      Ohio State University

    • Joseph C Snyder

      Miami University

    • Joseph R Smith

      Marietta College

    • Chris Orban

      Ohio State University

    • Enam A Chowdhury

      Ohio State University

    • Michael L Dexter

      Air Force Institute of Technology

    • Anil K Patnaik

      U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)

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  • Channel Fields and Transverse Ion Acceleration from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasma on OMEGA EP

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    Presenters

    • Veronica Contreras

    Authors

    • Veronica Contreras

    • Hongmei Tang

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • Paul T Campbell

    • Felicie Albert

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Hui Chen

      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    • Nicolas Kalem

    • Yong Ma

    • Philip M Nilson

      Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

    • Brandon K Russell

      Princeton University

    • Jessica L Shaw

      University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

    • Kavin Tangtartharakul

      University of California, San Diego

    • I-Lin Yeh

      University of California, San Diego

    • Alexey Arefiev

      University of California, San Diego

    • Louise Willingale

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  • Study of Proton Heating in Proximally Structured Cu Foam Targets

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    Presenters

    • Perry Samimy

      Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego

    Authors

    • Perry Samimy

      Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego

    • Mathieu Bailly-Grandvaux

      University of California, San Diego

    • Joohwan Kim

      University of California, San Diego

    • Christopher McGuffey

      General Atomics

    • Farhat N Beg

      University of California, San Diego

    • Simon Bolaños

      University of California, San Diego

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  • Extreme contrast, ultrahigh intensity laser-solid interaction - Impulsive excitation and direct observation of the ponderomotive push

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    Presenters

    • Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai

    Authors

    • Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai

    • Sagar Dam

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Sk Rakeeb

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Ameya Parab

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Amit D Lad

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Yash M Ved

      Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Jian-Fuh Ong

      EXtreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics, Magurele

    • Kazuo A Tanaka

      Extreme Light Infrastructure- Nuclear Physics, Magurele

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  • Empire PIC Simulations of an Intense Electron Beam Propagation in Low Pressure N<sub>2</sub>

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    Publication: [1] A. S. Richardson et al., "Modeling intense-electron-beam generated plasmas using a rigid-beam approximation," Phys. Plasmas, vol. 28, no. 9, p. 093508, 2021, doi: 10.1063/5.0058006.<br>[2] M.T. Bettencourt et al., "EMPIRE-PIC: A Performance Portable Unstructured Particle-in-Cell Code", https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1822232

    Presenters

    • Nancy D Isner

      CTI, HII-Mission Technologies

    Authors

    • Nancy D Isner

      CTI, HII-Mission Technologies

    • Eric Ryan Kaiser

      United States Naval Research Laboratory

    • Stuart L Jackson

      United States Naval Research Laboratory

    • Ian M Rittersdorf

      United States Naval Research Laboratory

    • Stephen B Swanekamp

      Syntek Technologies

    • Christopher H Moore

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Keith L Cartwright

      Sandia National Laboratories

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  • Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Power Flow in a Transmission Line Modification to HERMES-III consisting of Tapers applied in Various Geometries to Inner and Outer MITL Conductors

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    Presenters

    • Timothy Jerome Renk

      Sandia National Laboratories

    Authors

    • Timothy Jerome Renk

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Timothy J Webb

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Mark D. Johnston

      Sandia National Laboratories, University of New Mexico

    • Kenneth A Mikkelson

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Adam M Darr

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • John G Maynard

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Michael G Mazarakis

      Sandia National Laboratories

    • Ioana Paraschiv

      Voss Scientific

    • Dale R Welch

      Voss Scientific

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