High-Field Science

2000
ISBN: 978-0-306-46376-1
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tajima, Toshiki

Baldis, Hector

Mima, Kunioki

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Angewandte Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Fast Ignitor and High Field Science.- 1. Fast Ignition and Related Plasma Physics.- 2. Pulse Expansion and Soliton-Like Propagation of Ultrahigh intense Short Pulse Laser.- Dense Plasmas.- 3. Equation of State Measurements at Extreme Pressures Using Laser-Driven Shocks.- 4. Dusty Plasmas and Coulomb Crystals.- Laser-Matter Interaction.- 5. Experimental Indentification of “Vacuum Heating” at Femtosecond-Laser- Irradiated Metal Surfaces.- 6. Second-Harmonic Generation and Non-Resonant Absorption in Sub-Picosecond Laser-Solid Interactions.- 7. Strong Coupling Between Clusters and Radiation.- X-RAYS.- 8. Nonlinear Vacuum electron-Photon Interactions at Relativistic Intensities.- 9. Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering.- Photonic Acceleration and High Energy Phenomena.- 10. Ultrashort Electron Bunches from Laser- Plasma Accelerators.- 11. High Energy Electrons, Positrons, and Photonuclear Reactions in Petawatt Laser-Solid Experiments.- 12. Pair Production by Strong Laser Field in High Density Plasmas.- 13. Relativistic Lasers and High Energy Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts and Highest Energy Acceleration.- Author Index.