Bulletin of the American Physical Society

58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 61, Number 18

Monday–Friday, October 31–November 4 2016; San Jose, California

Session Index

Session TO6: Laser-plasma Ion Acceleration	Show Abstracts
Chair: Stepan Bulanov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: 230 C

Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		TO6.00001: Progress toward a practical laser driven ion source using variable thickness liquid crystal targets Patrick Poole, Ginevra Cochran, Karl Zeil, Josephine Metzkes, Lieselotte Obst, Thomas Kluge, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Irene Prencipe, Tom Cowan, Uli Schramm, Douglass Schumacher Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		TO6.00002: Experiments and PIC simulations on liquid crystal plasma mirrors for pulse contrast enhancement G. E. Cochran, P.L. Poole, A. Krygier, P.S. Foster, G.G. Scott, L.A. Wilson, J. Bailey, N. Bourgeois, C. Hernandez-Gomez, R. Heery, J. Purcell, D. Neely, P.P. Rajeev, R.R. Freeman, D.W. Schumacher Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		TO6.00003: LPWA using supersonic gas jet with tailored density profile O. Kononenko, S. Bohlen, J. Dale, R. D'Arcy, M. Dinter, J.H. Erbe, G. Indorf, L. di Lucchio, L. Goldberg, J.N. Gruse, S. Karstensen, V. Libov, K. Ludwig, A. Martinez de la Ossa, F. Marutzky, A. Niroula, J. Osterhoff, M. Quast, L. Schaper, J.-P. Schwinkendorf, M. Streeter, G. Tauscher, S. Weichert, C. Palmer, Taras Horbatiuk Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		TO6.00004: Dynamics of laser driven proton beams exhibited by experimentally determined laser absorption and reflection Jianhui Bin, Klaus Allinger, Konstantin Khrennikov, Paul Bolton, Joerg Schreiber Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:18AM - 10:30AM		TO6.00005: Achieving Stable Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Heavy Ions via Successive Electron Replenishment from Ionization of a High-Z Material Coating X. F. Shen, B. Qiao, H. X. Chang, S. Kar, C. T. Zhou, M. Borghesi, X. T. He Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:30AM - 10:42AM		TO6.00006: Spectral control of laser accelerated ions via deuterium vapour deposition onto cryogenically cooled targets Graeme Scott Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:42AM - 10:54AM		TO6.00007: Kinetic effects on the transition to relativistic self-induced transparency in laser-driven ion acceleration Evangelos Siminos, Benjamin Svedung Wettervik, Mickael Grech, T\"unde F\"ul\"op Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:54AM - 11:06AM		TO6.00008: Proton acceleration by multi-terawatt interaction with a near-critical density hydrogen jet Andy Goers, Linus Feder, George Hine, Fatholah Salehi, Daniel Woodbury, J.J. Su, Dennis Papadopoulos, Arie Zigler, Howard Milchberg Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:06AM - 11:18AM		TO6.00009: kHz Ion Acceleration Under Variable Background Pressure John T. Morrison, S. Feister, K. Frische, D.R. Austin, G.K. Ngirmang, A.C. Peterson, J. Smith, A. Klim, C. Orban, E.A. Chowdhury, W.R. Roquemore Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:18AM - 11:30AM		TO6.00010: Analysis of efficient ion acceleration with multi-picosecond LFEX laser Natsumi Iwata, Akifumi Yogo, Kunioki Mima, Shota Tosaki, Keisuke Koga, Hideo Nagatomo, Yasuaki Kishimoto, Hiroaki Nishimura, Horishi Azechi Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:30AM - 11:42AM		TO6.00011: Generation of Energetic Particles in Intense Laser Matter Interaction Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna, Tayyab Muhammad, Suman Bagchi, Tirtha Mandal, Juzer Chakera, Prasad Naik, Parshotam Dass Gupta Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:42AM - 11:54AM		TO6.00012: Enhancing Target Normal Sheath Accelerated Ions with Micro-structured Targets Kevin George, Joseph Snyder, Liangliang Ji, Trevor Rubin, Abraham Handler, Patrick Poole, Christopher Willis, Rebecca Daskalova, Ginevra Cochran, Douglass Schumacher Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:54AM - 12:06PM		TO6.00013: Front surface structured targets for enhancing laser-plasma interactions Joseph Snyder, Kevin George, Liangliang Ji, Sasir Yalamanchili, Ethan Simonoff, Ginevra Cochran, Rebecca Daskalova, Patrick Poole, Christopher Willis, Nathan Lewis, Douglass Schumacher Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 12:06PM - 12:18PM		TO6.00014: Dynamics of laser-driven proton beam focusing and transport into solid density matter J. Kim, C. McGuffey, F. Beg, M. Wei, D. Mariscal, S. Chen, J. Fuchs Preview Abstract
Thursday, November 3, 2016 12:18PM - 12:30PM		TO6.00015: Physics of Double Pulse Irradiation of Targets For Proton Acceleration S. Kerr, M. Mo, R. Masud, L. Manzoor, H. Tiedje, Y. Tsui, R. Fedosejevs, A. Link, P. Patel, H. McLean, A. Hazi, H. Chen, L. Ceurvorst, P. Norreys Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 61, Number 18

Monday–Friday, October 31–November 4 2016; San Jose, California

Session Index

Session TO6: Laser-plasma Ion Acceleration

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