TARGETRY & DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR LASER PLASMA EXPERIMENTS. @ USAL and CLPU from February 2021
The Laser-Plasma Chair at the University of Salamanca develops a laser-plasma physics investigation related to the CLPU experimental activity. Experiments are performed in Salamanca and abroad in collaboration with internationally recognized scientific groups. The Laser-Plasma Chair form young scientists in the field of High-Power Laser-Plasmas and Particle Radiation beams at the University of Salamanca by organizing dedicated courses at USAL, and in collaboration with CLPU, for Ms and Ph.D. students in Salamanca. Within this action, we present the 1st course on Targetry and Diagnostic Methods for Laser-Plasma experiments.
- Course program
Laser-driven plasma is the primary subject of investigation in the modern High-Power laser facilities. The Centro de Láseres Pulsados –CLPU– is one of the most representative facilities in this area operating a PW level system and working at 1-10 Hz. Short pulse duration and tight focus are both important ingredients to confine energy to nowadays unreached enormous energy densities (about 1019-1022 J/cm2/second. At such energy densities, particles are accelerated at ultra-relativistic velocities and extreme states of matter can be easily generated. Several fundamental and applied investigations are possible via laser-plasma processes opening a new exciting field of physics in which both the plasma and laser science and technology merge together and their interplay forms the ‘Laser-Plasma Physics’.
In particular, several civil applications are possible such as for example proton therapy in Medicine, Ion imaging in Biology, and particle-induced X-ray emission PIXE in Cultural Heritage.
The course intends to introduce undergraduates and Ph.D. graduate students to the targetry and diagnostic methods in laser-plasma experiments.
This course consists of three parts and one experimental training:
- Introduction and definition of Laser-Plasma processes and their important parameters (5 hours)
- Laser-Plasma Diagnostics (35 hours)
- Targetry for laser-plasma experiments at HRR (15 hours)
- Experimental training at the Centro de Láseres Pulsados (5 hours)
The course is organized in a period from February to June 2021 at CLPU in person and/or online with the Zoom platform depending on the number of students, the CLPU experimental activity, and the COVID-19 situation.
- Teachers
DIAGNOSTICS
- Luca Volpe (Laser-plasma diagnostics)
- Giancarlo Gatti (Fast diagnostic measurement)
- Cruz Méndez (Laser diagnostic)
- Luis Roso (Laser intensity measurement)
- José A. Pérez Hernández (Experimental methods)
- Jon Apiñaniz (Ion diagnostics – Thomson Parabola)
- Sophia Malko (X-Ray diagnostics and time-resolved optical diagnostics)
- Marine Hauault (Ion diagnostics – RCF and Scintillator)
- Ghassan Zeraouli (X-ray diagnostics – Kirkpatrick-Baez microscope)
- Carlos Salgado (Plasma diagnostics based in plasma refractive index)
- Michäel Touati (Numerical simulations for laser contrast measurement)
- Massimo de Marco (EMP)
- José Manuel Álvarez (Neutron and gamma diagnostics for radioprotection)
TARGETRY
- José Luis Henares (Near critical gaseous targets)
- Massimo de Marco (Liquid targets)
- Gabriel Shauman (Experimental techniques for targetry)
- Malte Kaluza (Solid Hydrogen Ribon)
- Andrea Pazaglia (Foams targets)
> For any additional information contact Prof. Luca Volpe
