Bulletin of the American Physical Society

56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 59, Number 15

Monday–Friday, October 27–31, 2014; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session TO6: Radiation Sources, Particle Beams, and Positron Production	Show Abstracts
Chair: Zulfikar Najmudin, Imperial College, UK Room: Galerie 3

Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:30AM - 9:42AM		TO6.00001: X-ray radiation from a laser-wakefield accelerator in the self-modulated regime Felicie Albert, Bradley Pollock, John Ruby, Mickael Klem, Arthur Pak, Frederico Fiuza, Joseph Ralph, John Moody, Jessica Shaw, Nuno Lemos, Ken Marsh, Chris Clayton, Chan Joshi, Benjamin Galloway, William Schumaker, Siegfried Glenzer Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:42AM - 9:54AM		TO6.00002: Ultra-bright X-rays using Plasma Wigglers Jimmy Holloway, Peter Norreys, Riccardo Bartolini, Robert Bingham, John Nydell, Raoul Trines, Richard Walker, Matthew Wing Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:54AM - 10:06AM		TO6.00003: Multi-GeV electron beam and high brightness betatron x-ray generation in recent Texas Petawatt laser-driven plasma accelerator experiments Xiaoming Wang, Rafal Zgadzaj, Neil Fazel, Zhengyan Li, Xi Zhang, Watson Henderson, Yen-Yu Chang, Rick Korzekwa, H.-E. Tsai, Hernan Quevedo, Gilliss Dyer, Erhard Gaul, Mikael Martinez, Aaron Bernstein, Michael Spinks, Joseph Gordan, Michael Donovan, Vladimir Khudik, Gennady Shvets, Todd Ditmire, Michael Downer Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:06AM - 10:18AM		TO6.00004: High-brightness, high-energy radiation generation from non-linear Thomson scattering of laser wakefield accelerated electrons W. Schumaker, Z. Zhao, A.G.R. Thomas, K. Krushelnick, G. Sarri, D. Corvan, M. Zepf, J. Cole, S.P.D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:18AM - 10:30AM		TO6.00005: Compton Backscattered X-rays from Self-Generated Laser Wiggler in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator Antonio Ting, Dmitri Kaganovich, Bahman Hafizi, John Palastro, Michael Helle, Daniel Gordon, Yu-hsin Chen, John Seely Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:30AM - 10:42AM		TO6.00006: Ring-Shaped Distributions of Monoenergetic Electron Beams Generated via Density Discontinuities in a Two-Stage Gas Cell Zhen Zhao, Keegan Behm, Bixue Hou, Vladimir Chvykov, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Victor Yanovsky, Alexander Thomas, Karl Krushelnick Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:42AM - 10:54AM		TO6.00007: X-ray Emission Characteristics of Ultra-High Energy Density Relativistic Plasmas Created by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation of Nanowire Arrays R.C. Hollinger, C. Bargsten, V.N. Shlyaptsev, A. Pukhov, M.A. Purvis, A. Townsend, D. Keiss, Y. Wang, S. Wang, A. Prieto, J.J. Rocca Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:54AM - 11:06AM		TO6.00008: Volumetric Heating of Ultra-High Energy Density Relativistic Plasmas by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation of Aligned Nanowire Arrays Clayton Bargsten, Reed Hollinger, Vyacheslav Shlyaptsev, Alexander Pukhov, David Keiss, Amanda Townsend, Yong Wang, Shoujun Wang, Amy Prieto, Jorge Rocca Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:06AM - 11:18AM		TO6.00009: Characterizing relativistic petawatt-laser-generated particle beams on Orion Matthew Hill, Peter Allan, Colin Brown, Ray Edwards, Edward Gumbrell, David Hoarty, Lauren Hobbs, Steven James, Hui Chen, Andy Hazi, Edward Marley, Ronnie Shepherd, Jackson Williams Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:18AM - 11:30AM		TO6.00010: Optical Guiding and Electron Acceleration in Programmably Modulated Plasma Waveguides George Hine, Andrew Goers, Jennifer Elle, Linus Feder, Howard Milchberg Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:30AM - 11:42AM		TO6.00011: Positron Production Using a Laser-Wakefield Electron Source G. Jackson Williams, Felicie Albert, Hui Chen, Jaebum Park, Bradley Pollock Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:42AM - 11:54AM		TO6.00012: Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Creation of High Energy Gamma Rays and Electron/Positron Pairs and Experiments on the Texas Petawatt Laser Alexander Henderson, Edison Liang, Pablo Yepes, Gilliss Dyer, Nathan Riley, Kristina Serratto Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:54AM - 12:06PM		TO6.00013: Collimation of a Positron Beam Using an Externally Applied Magnetic Field D.H. Barnak, P.-Y. Chang, R. Betti, G. Fiksel, D.D. Meyerhofer, G.J. Williams, S. Kerr, H. Chen Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:06PM - 12:18PM		TO6.00014: Generation of a Strong Terahertz Radiation by Counter-Propagating Laser Pulses in a Magnetized Plasma Min Sup Hur, Myung-Hoon Cho, Young-Kuk Kim Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:18PM - 12:30PM		TO6.00015: Liquid crystals as on-demand, variable thickness targets for intense laser applications Patrick L. Poole, C. David Andereck, Douglass W. Schumacher Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 59, Number 15

Monday–Friday, October 27–31, 2014; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session TO6: Radiation Sources, Particle Beams, and Positron Production

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