Final Report for DOE Grant Number DE-SC0001481

[摘要] This report covers research activities, major results and publications supported by DE-SC-000-1481. This project was funded by the DOE OFES-NNSA HEDLP program. It was a joint research program between Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin. The physics of relativistic plasmas was investigated in the context of ultra-intense laser irradiation of high-Z solid targets. Laser experiments using the Texas Petawatt Laser were performed in the summers of 2011, 2012 and 2013. Numerical simulations of laser-plasma interactions were performed using Monte Carlo and Particle-in-Cell codes to design and support these experiments. Astrophysical applications of these results were also investigated.

[发布日期] 2013-12-02

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

[关键词] Relativistic Plasmas;Ultra-intense Lasers;Laser Plasma Interactions;Positron Physics