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Flexible tape-drive target system for secondary high-intensity laser-driven sources

G. Zeraouli, D. A. Mariscal, R. Hollinger, S. Zahedpour Anaraki, E. N. Folsom, E. Grace, D. Rusby, M. P. Hill, G. J. Williams, G. G. Scott, B. Sullivan, S. Wang, J. King, K. K. Swanson, R. A. Simpson, B. Z. Djordjevic, S. Andrews, R. Costa, B. Cauble, F. Albert, J. J. Rocca, and T. Ma (2023).

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The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator

Constantin Aniculaesei, Thanh Ha, Samuel Yoffe, Lance Labun, Stephen Milton, Edward McCary, Michael M. Spinks, Hernan J. Quevedo, Ou Z. Labun, Ritwik Sain, Andrea Hannasch, Rafal Zgadzaj, Isabella Pagano, Jose A. Franco-Altamirano, Martin L. Ringuette, Erhart Gaul, Scott V. Luedtke, Ganesh Tiwari, Bernhard Ersfeld, Enrico Brunetti, Hartmut Ruhl, Todd Ditmire, Sandra Bruce, Michael E. Donovan, Michael C. Downer, Dino A. Jaroszynski, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich

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Nanoscale reshaping of resonant dielectric microstructures by light-driven explosions

Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Giovanni Sartorello, Simin Zhang, Joshua Bocanegra, Melissa Bosch, Michael Tripepi, Noah Talisa, Abdallah AlShafey, Joseph Smith, Stephen Londo, François Légaré, Enam Chowdhury, and Gennady Shvets (2023).

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Ambient-temperature liquid jet targets for high-repetition-rate HED discovery science

F. Treffert, G.D. Glenn, H.-G.J. Chou, C. Crissman, C.B. Curry, D.P. DePonte, F. Fiuza, N.J. Hartley, B. Ofori-Okai, M. Roth, S.H. Glenzer, and M. Gauthier (2022).

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Compact Spectral Characterization of 5-500 MeV X-rays from the Texas Petawatt Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerator

A. Hannasch, L. Lisi, J. Brooks, X. Cheng, A. Laso Garcia, M. LaBerge, I. Pagano, B. Bowers, R. Zgadzaj, H.J. Quevedo, M. Spinks, M.E. Donovan, T. Cowan, and M.C. Downer (2021).

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High-repetition-rate, multi-MeV deuteron acceleration from converging heavy water microjets at laser intensities of 10^21 W/cm^2

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 (2022).

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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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