Session GO4: Short Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions

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Chair: Farhat Beg, University of California, San Diego
- Reunion B


Tuesday, November 18, 2008
9:45AM - 9:57AM

GO4.00001: K-Photon and Thermal X-Ray-Emission Measurements from Planar Copper Foil Targets Irradiated by High-Intensity Laser Pulses
P.M. Nilson , W. Theobald , J.F. Myatt , C. Stoeckl , P.A. Jaanimagi , J.A. Delettrez , M. Storm , R. Betti , D.D. Meyerhofer , T.C. Sangster , J.S. Green , K.L. Lancaster , P.A. Norreys , F. Beg , R.B. Stephens , M.H. Key

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
9:57AM - 10:09AM

GO4.00002: Intense Laser-to-Fast-Electron Coupling Efficiency in Wedge-Shaped-Cavity Targets
W. Theobald , P.M. Nilson , J.F. Myatt , B. Eichman , S. Ivancic , C. Stoeckl , C. Ren , J.A. Delettrez , J.D. Zuegel , T.C. Sangster , V. Ovchinnikov , L. Van Woerkom , R.R. Freeman , R.B. Stephens

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10:09AM - 10:21AM

GO4.00003: MeV electron generation and transport in ultrathin and thick solids
Julien Fuchs , Patrizio Antici , Marco Borghesi , Emmanuel d'Humi\`eres , Laurent Gremillet , Thomas Grismayer , Patrick Mora , Erik Lefebvre , Carlo Cecchetti , Ana Mancic , Motoaki Nakatsutsumi , Ariane Piphal , Lorenzo Romagnani , Yasuhiko Sentoku , Oswald Willi , Patrick Audebert

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10:21AM - 10:33AM

GO4.00004: Generation Mechanisms of Multi-MeV Electrons in Ultra-intense Laser Plasma Interactions and Applications
Scott Wilks , H. Chen , W.L. Kruer , A.J. Kemp , P.K. Patel , R. Shepherd , M. Tabak

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10:33AM - 10:45AM

GO4.00005: Energetic Electron Spectra with High Ultraintense Radiation on Thick Targets
A. Link , R.R. Freeman , D.W. Schumacher , L.D. Van Woerkom , H. Chen , D.S. Hey , M.H. Key , S. Le Pape , A.J. Mackinnon , A.G. MacPhee , P.K. Patel , Y. Ping , T. Bartal , T. Ma , M.S. Wei , F.N. Beg , C.D. Chen , Y.Y. Tsui , K.U. Akli , R.B. Stephens

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

GO4.00006: Characterization of two fast electron populations from the interaction of ultra intense laser and solid target using coherent transition radiation
B.I. Cho , J. Osterholz , A.C. Bernstein , G.M. Dyer , A. Karmakar , A. Puhkov , T. Ditmire

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

GO4.00007: Spectrum of escaping fast electrons in high intensity laser solid target interaction
Mingsheng Wei , Farhat Beg , Richard Stephens , Toshinori Yabuuchi

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

GO4.00008: Electron Generation in Fast Ignition Targets
R.B. Stephens , K. Akli , T.J. Bartal , F.N. Beg , S. Chawla , D.P. Higginson , S. Chen , T. Ma , B.J. Westover , M. Wei , T. Yabuuchi , C. Chen , H. Chen , D.S. Hey , M.H. Key , S. LePape , A.J. MacKinnon , A.G. MacPhee , P.K. Patel , R.R. Freeman , V.M. Ovchinnikov , L. Van Woerkom , C. Stoeckl , W. Theobald , Y. Tsui

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

GO4.00009: Isochoric heating of reduced-mass targets in short pulse laser experiments at 0.53 $\mu $m
Sophie Baton , Patrick Audebert , Michel Koenig , Frederic Perez , Makhlad Chahid , Christophe Rousseaux , Laurent Gremillet , Erik Lefebvre , Jenny Rassuchine , Tom Cowan , Sandrine Gaillard , Ronnie Shepperd , Kirk Flippo

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

GO4.00010: Enhanced proton emission and hot electron dynamics inside Cu and Au flat-top cone (FTC) targets
Sandrine Gaillard , K. Flippo , J. Workman , D.S. Montgomery , B.J. Albright , J.A. Cobble , J.C. Fernandez , D.C. Gautier , B.M. Hegelich , J.L. Kline , S. Letzring , L. Yin , T.E. Cowan , J. Rassuchine , Y. Sentoku , N. Vutisalchavakul

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

GO4.00011: New scaling laws for ion acceleration from the enhanced 200TW Trident laser at LANL
Kirk Flippo , B. Albright , T.E. Cowan , J.C. Fernandez , S.A. Gaillard , D.C. Gautier , K. Harres , B.M. Hegelich , A. Henig , R.P. Johnson , D. Kiefer , J.L. Kline , S. Letzring , F. Nuernberg , M. Roth , J. Rassuchine , M. Schollmeier , R.C. Shah , T. Shimada , J. Workman , L. Yin , N. Vutisalchavakul

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

GO4.00012: Proton Conversion Efficiency Measurements Relevant to Fast Ignition
T. Bartal , F.N. Beg , S. Chawla , D. Higginson , M.S. Wei , B. Westover , T. Yabuuchi , M. Foord , D. Hey , M.H. Key , S. LePape , T. Ma , A.J. Mackinnon , A.G. MacPhee , P.K. Patel , K.U. Akli , R.B. Stephens , C.D. Chen , R.R. Freeman , E. Kemp , D. Offermann , V. Ovchinnikov , L. Van Woerkom , Y. Tsui

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

GO4.00013: Improvements to the applicability of laser plasma ion acceleration
Christopher D. Murphy , Rebecca L. Daskalova , Enam A. Chowdhury , Richard R. Freeman , Andrew Krygier , John Morrison , Linn D. Van Woerkom , Anatoly Maksimchuk , Takeshi Matsuoka , Christopher McGuffey , Karl Krushelnick

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

GO4.00014: Temperature gradients in solid targets irradiated by high intensity short pulse laser
Sophia N. Chen , Pravesh K. Patel , Hyun-Kung Chung , Andreas J. Kemp , Sebastien Le Pape , Brian R. Maddox , Scott C. Wilks , Farhat Beg

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:33PM - 12:45PM

GO4.00015: Electron Acceleration from the Interaction of VULCAN 100TW Laser with Au Foils and its Dependence on Laser Polarisation
S.R. Nagel , C. Bellei , S. Kneip , S.P.D. Mangles , C. Palmer , L. Willingale , A.E. Dangor , Z. Najmudin , R.J. Clarke , R. Heathcote , A. Henig , J. Schreiber , A. Saevert , M. Kaluza

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