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dc.contributor.advisor | Fisch, Nathaniel J | |
dc.contributor.author | Lezhnin, Kirill | |
dc.contributor.other | Astrophysical Sciences—Plasma Physics Program Department | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-02T20:55:29Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-02T20:55:29Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2022-01-01 | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01s1784p968 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Over the past few decades, laser technology has developed dramatically, achieving ultrahigh peak laser powers. Currently operating laser facilities (e.g., NIF, OMEGAEP, and BELLA) may deliver up to 1 petawatt peak laser power, while up andcoming ELI-Beamlines and ELI-Nuclear Physics projects will reach 10 petawatt level soon. Such high power pulses are capable of creating ultrahigh electric (up to 1 gigavolt/micron) and magnetic (up to 1 megatesla) fields, which open up an opportunity for a wide range of applications, from fundamental investigations of strong-field QED and astrophysically relevant phenomena in the controlled laboratory environment to development of secondary sources of charged particles and radiation. In the present thesis, I will discuss laser power transmission and seed focusability problems in plasma-based laser amplification, some approaches towards the creation of laser-based fast ion and gamma ray sources, and applications of high power lasers to the studies of magnetic reconnection and electron acceleration by magnetized collisionless shocks. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University | |
dc.subject.classification | Astrophysics | |
dc.subject.classification | Plasma physics | |
dc.title | Using high power lasers as a tool for secondary sources and laboratory astrophysics | |
dc.type | Academic dissertations (Ph.D.) | |
pu.date.classyear | 2022 | |
pu.department | Astrophysical Sciences—Plasma Physics Program | |
Appears in Collections: | Plasma Physics |
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