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Ultraintense laser radiation transforms matter into plasma rich with free energetic electrons. Controlling the distributions and flows of these electrons enables to generate and shape the record electric and magnetic fields suitable for many applications. Our research scope extends from the fundamental studies of highly nonlinear laser-plasma interactions, to their applications in the compact accelerators of electrons, ions, and sources of bright femtosecond X-rays. We also look for the potential applications of these laser-plasma particles and X-rays sources in medicine, radiotherapy, radiobiology, and for non destructive material inspection.

 

 

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Recent Publications:

06/06/2023 - Refractive plasma optics for relativistic laser beams - Nature Communications - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38937-0

11/05/2023 - Femtosecond electron microscopy of relativistic electron bunches - Light: Science and Applications - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01142-1

07/03/2023 - Energy-conserving theory of the blowout regime of plasma wakefield - PRL - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.105001

15/02/2023 - Control of electron beam current, charge, and energy spread using density downramp injection in laser wakefield accelerators (MRE) - https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0126293

14/10/2022 - Characterization of spatiotemporal couplings with far-field beamlet cross-correlation (Journal of Optics) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8986/ac9631

15/08/2022 - Direct observation of relativistic broken plasma waves (Nature Physics) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01717-6

 

Recent Conferences and Collaborations:

 

24/03/23-31/03/23 Members of the electron acceleration team at the HZDR traveled to Weizmann for an experiment.  

05/03/23-10/03/23 Members of Malkalab traveled to the Laser Plasma Accelerator Workshop (LPAW) conference in Lagos, Portugal. 

12/2022-2/2023 Members of Malkalab traveled to the HZDR and members of the HZDR traveled to Weizmann to participate in each others experiments. 

5-7/12/2022 - Members of Malkalab presented at the CHILI2022 conference

13-16/11/2022 - Malkalab members traveled to ELI-NP to participate in an experiment.  

 

Recent Malkalab journal club:

06/29/2023 (Upcoming) - Eitan on injection techniques

06/11/2023 - Heychal on progress with electron probe experiments