Prof.
Marco Borghesi
(Queen's University Belfast)
27/09/2012, 17:50
Invited talk
Over the last 10 years the acceleration of ions with high-power lasers has been extensively investigated by many groups worldwide. The main acceleration mechanisms studied in experiments are via electrostatic sheaths set-up at the surface of laser-irradiated foils by relativistic electrons. Beams produced via this mechanism have very different properties from conventional accelerator beams....
Prof.
Danilo Giulietti
(PI)
27/09/2012, 18:20
Novel sources: PXR&TR&FEL&Plasma
Ultra-short Ti:Sa laser pulses at relativistic intensities, propagating in plasmas at densities of the order of 1018-19 el/cm3, can induce accelerating electric fields up to 104 times the maximum fields available in the conventional accelerators. The consequent drastic reduction of the dimensions and costs of the apparatus, open to several applications. In fact, once energetic electron...
Dr
Angelo Schiavi Schiavi
(SBAI Department, Sapienza University of Rome)
27/09/2012, 18:40
Novel sources: PXR&TR&FEL&Plasma
The long running quest for demonstrating ignition and gain in Inertial Confinement Fusion [1] has come to crucial point, where the proof of principle of this approach to fusion energy is within the reach of the scientific community. We present the status of this field of research, both at the international [2] and european level [3], focussing on the experimental activities, on the guiding...
Dr
Vladimir Zvorykin
(PN Lebedev Phys Institute)
27/09/2012, 19:00
Oral
The multiple filamentation over very long propagation distances ~ 100 m was measured for peak pulse power exceeding the critical value for λ=248-nm radiation (~108 W) in 2000 times. An all-reflection mirror focusing scheme with a small numerical aperture of about 3 10-4 was designed. The intensity distribution was recorded by using glass plate fluorescence under UV irradiation with imaging at...
