Paper published in New Journal of Physics

Published on 10 October 2014

The results published in this paper provide new insight into the collective response of charged particles to intense laser fields over an extended interaction volume, which is important for a wide range of applications, and in particular for the development of promising new ultraintense laser-driven ion acceleration mechanisms involving ultrathin target foils.

Target wheel holding the ultra-thin targets employed in the experiment

'Azimuthal asymmetry in collective electron dynamics in relativistically transparent laser-foil interactions', R. J. Gray, D. A. MacLellan, B. Gonzalez-Izquierdo, H. W. Powell, D. C. Carroll, C. D. Murphy, L. C. Stockhausen, D. R. Rusby, G. G. Scott, R. Wilson, N. Booth, D. R. Symes, S. J. Hawkes, R. Torres, M. Borghesi, D. Neely, P. McKenna (2014) New Journal of Physics, 16. ISSN 1367-2630

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