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Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma

A. Chien, L Gao, S. Zhang, H. Ji, E. G. Blackman, W. Daughton, A. Stanier, A. Le, F. Guo, R. Follett, H. Chen, G. Fiksel, G. Bleotu, R. C. Cauble, S. N. Chen, A. Fazzini, K. Flippo, O. French, D. H. Froula, J. Fuchs, S. Fujioka, K. Hill, S. Klein, C. Kuranz, P. Nilson, A. Rasmus, and R. Takizawa. Nat. Phys. (2023).

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A Flexible Proton Beam Imaging Energy Spectrometer (PROBIES) for High Repetition Rate or Single-Shot High Eenergy Density (HED) experiments

D. A. Mariscal, B. Z. Djordjević, R. Anirudh, T. Bremer, P. C. Campbell, S. Feister, E. Folsom, E. S. Grace, R. Hollinger, S. A. Jacobs, B. Kailkhura, D. Kalantar, A. J. Kemp, J. Kim, E. Kur, S. Liu, J. Ludwig, J. Morrison, R. Nedbailo, N. Ose, J. Park, J. J. Rocca, G. G. Scott, R. A. Simpson, H. Song, B. Spears, B. Sullivan, K. K. Swanson, J. Thiagarajan, S. Wang, G. J. Williams, S. C. Wilks, M. Wyatt, B. Van Essen, R. Zacharias, G. Zeraouli, J. Zhang, and T. Ma. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 94, 023507 (2023).

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Ablating Ion Velocity Distributions in Short-Pulse-Heated Solids via X-Ray Doppler Shifts

B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, W. Fox, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, and J. J. Rocca. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235001 (2022).

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Ultra-compact x-ray spectrometer for high-repetition-rate laser–plasma experiments

G. Zeraouli, D. Mariscal, E. Grace, G. G. Scott, K. K. Swanson, R. Simpson, B. Z. Djordjevic, R. Nedbailo, H. Song, J. Morrison, J. Park, R. Hollinger, S. Wang, J. J. Rocca, and T. Ma. Rev. of Sci. Instrum. 93, 113508 (2022).

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Applications of machine learning to a compact magnetic spectrometer for high repetition rate, laser-driven particle acceleration

K. K. Swanson, D. A. Mariscal, B. Z. Djordjevic, G. Zeraouli, G. G. Scott, R. Hollinger, S. Wang, H. Song, B. Sullivan, R. Nedbailo, J. J. Rocca, and T. Ma Rev. Sci. Instrum. 93, 103547 (2022).

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Investigation of Proton Beam-Driven Fusion Reactions Generated by an Ultra-Short Petawatt-Scale Laser Pulse

M. S. Schollmeier, V. Shirvanyan, C. Capper, S. Steinke, A. Higginson, R. Hollinger, J. T. Morrison, R. Nedbailo, Huanyu Song, Shoujun Wang, J. J. Rocca, and G. Korn. Laser Part, 2022, 2404263, (2022).

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Homogeneous, Micron-Scale High-Energy-Density Matter Generated by Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions

N. F. Beier, H. Allison, P. Efthimion, K. A. Flippo, L. Gao, S. B. Hansen, K. Hill, R. Hollinger, M. Logantha, Y. Musthafa, R. Nedbailo, V. Senthilkumaran, R. Shepherd, V. N. Shlyaptsev, H. Song, S. Wang, F. Dollar, J. J. Rocca, and A. E. Hussein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 135001 (2022)

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Multi-GeV Electron Bunches from an All-Optical Laser Wakefield Accelerator

B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, L. Feder, R. C. Hollinger, J. Morrison, R. Nedbailo , A. Picksley , H. Song, S. Wang, J. J. Rocca, and H. M. Milchberg. Phys. Rev. X 12, 031038 (2022).

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High-repetition-rate, multi-MeV deuteron acceleration from converging heavy water microjets at laser intensities of 10 21 W/cm2

F. Treffert, C. B. Curry, H.-G. J. Chou, C. J. Crissman, D. P. DePonte, F. Fiuza, G. D. Glenn, R. C. Hollinger, R. Nedbailo, J. Park, C. Schoenwaelder, H. Song, S. Wang, J. J. Rocca, M. Roth, S. H. Glenzer, and M. Gauthier. Appl. Phys. Lett. 121, 074104 (2022).

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A laser parameter study on enhancing proton generation from microtube foil targets

J. Strehlow, J. Kim, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, S. Bolaños, H. Smith, A. Haid, E. L. Alfonso, C. Aniculaesei, H. Chen, T. Ditmire, M. E. Donovan, S. B. Hansen, B. M. Hegelich, H. S. McLean, H. J. Quevedo, M. M. Spinks and Farhat N. Beg, Sci. Rep. 12, 10827 (2022).

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Transient Relativistic Plasma Grating to Tailor High-Power Laser Fields, Wakefield Plasma Waves, and Electron Injection

Q. Chen, D. Maslarova, J. Wang, S. X. Lee, V. Horny, and D. Umstadter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 164801, (2022).

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Enhancement of high energy X-ray radiography using compound parabolic concentrator targets

P. M. King, D. Rusby, A. Hannasch, N. Lemos, G. Tiwari, A. Pak, S. Kerr, G. Cochran, I. Pagano, G. J. Williams, S. F. Khan, M. Aufderheide, A. Kemp, S. Wilks, A. Macphee, F. Albert, B.M. Hegelich, M. Downer, M. Manuel, Z. Gavin, A. Haid, and A. Mackinnon. High Energy Density Phys. 42, 100978, (2022).

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A new platform for ultra‑high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline

J. Bin, L. Obst-Huebl, J.-H. Mao, K. Nakamura, L. D. Geulig, H. Chang, Q. Ji, L. He, J. De Chant, Z. Kober, A. J. Gonsalves, S. Bulanov, S. E. Celniker, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, B. A. Simmons, T. Schenkel, E. A. Blakely, S. Steinke, and A. M. Snijders. Sci. Rep. 12, 1484 (2022).

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Vacuum laser acceleration of super-ponderomotive electrons using relativistic transparency injection

P. K. Singh, F.-Y. Li, C.-K. Huang, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, A. Junghans, S. Wang, A. Favalli, C. Calvi, Y. Wang, H. Song, J. J. Rocca, R. E. Reinovsky, and S. Palaniyappan. Nat. Commun. 13, 54 (2022).

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Ion acceleration and D‐D fusion neutron generation in relativistically transparent deuterated nanowire arrays

A. Curtis, R. Hollinger, C. Calvi, S. Wang, S. Huanyu, Y. Wang, A. Pukhov, V. Kaymak, C. Baumann, J. Tinsley, V.N. Shlyaptsev, and J.J. Rocca. Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043181 (2021).

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Emittance preserving thin film plasma mirrors for GeV scale laser plasma accelerators

A. Zingale, N. Czapla, D. M. Nasir, S. K. Barber, J. H. Bin, A. J. Gonsalves, F. Isono, J. van Tilborg, S. Steinke, K. Nakamura, G. E. Cochran, J. Purcell, W. P. Leemans, C. G. R. Geddes, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and D. W. Schumacher. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 121301 (2021).

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Multi-GeV electron bunches from an all-optical laser wakefield accelerator

B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, L. Feder, R. C. Hollinger, J. Morrison, R. Nedbailo, A. Picksley, H. Song, S. Wang, J. J. Rocca, and H. M. Milchberg. arXiv:2112.03489v2 [physics.acc-ph] (2021).

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Towards High-Repetition-Rate Fast Neutron Sources Using Novel Enabling Technologies

F. Treffert, C. B. Curry, T. Ditmire, G. D. Glenn, H. J. Quevedo, M. Roth, C. Schoenwaelder, M. Zimmer, S. H. Glenzer, M. Gauthier. Instruments 5(4), 38 (2021).

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Experimental observation of polarization-resolved nonlinear Thomson scattering of elliptically polarized light

C. Fruhling, J. Wang, D. Umstadter, C. Schulzke, M. Romero, M. Ware, and J. Peatross. Phys. Rev. A 104, 053519, (2021).

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Solid-Density Ion Temperature from Redshifted and Double-Peaked Stark Line Shapes

B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, T. A. Gomez, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, J. J. Rocca, and R. C. Mancini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205001 (2021).

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