High-Field Science

ISBN-13: 9780306463761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 227 str.

Toshiki Tajima; Toshiki Tajima; Kunioki Mima

Opis

High Field Science is a proceedings volume from a meeting at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and contains papers from the top experts in the fields of ultraintense laser technology, laser fusion energy, high energy laser electron acceleration, bright X-ray sources by lasers, laboratory laser astrophysics, and applications to relativity, high density and high energy physics.

Spis treści

Preface. 1: Fast Ignitor and High Field Science. Fast Ignition and Related Plasma Physics; K. Mima. Pulse Expansion and Soliton-like Propagation of Ultrahigh Intense Short Pulse Laser; H. Sakagami, K. Mima. 2: Dense Plasmas. Equation of State Measurements at Extreme Pressures using Laser-Driven Shocks; R. Cauble, et al. Dusty Plasmas and Coulomb Crystals; S. Hamaguchi. 3: Laser-Matter Interaction. Experimental Identification of `Vacuum Heating' at Femtosecond-Laser-Irradiated Metal Surfaces; M.K. Grimes, et al. Second-Harmonic Generation and Non-Resonant Absorption in Sub-Picosecond Laser-Solid Interactions; C.T. Hansen, et al. Strong Coupling between Clusters and Radiation; Y. Kishimoto, T. Tajima. 4: X-Rays. Nonlinear Vacuum Electron-Photon Interactions at Relativistic Intensities; F.V. Hartemann, et al. Experimental observation of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering; D. Umstadter, et al. 5: Photonic Acceleration and High Energy Phenomena. Ultrashort Electron Bunches from Laser-Plasma Accelerators; E. Esarey, et al. High Energy Electrons, Positrons, and Photonuclear Reactions in Petawatt Laser-Solid Experiments; T.E. Cowan, et al. Pair Production by Strong Laser Field in High Density Plasma; T. Taguchi, K. Mima. Relativistic Lasers and High Energy Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts and Highest Energy Acceleration; Y. Takahashi, et al. Author Index. Subject Index.