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1. Optimizing laser coupling, matter heating, and particle acceleration from solids using multiplexed ultraintense lasers

Author

Weipeng Yao, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Sébastien Buffechoux, Patrizio Antici, Marco Borghesi, Andrea Ciardi, Sophia N. Chen, Emmanuel d’Humières, Laurent Gremillet, Robert Heathcote, Vojtěch Horný, Paul McKenna, Mark N. Quinn, Lorenzo Romagnani, Ryan Royle, Gianluca Sarri, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Toma Toncian, Olivier Tresca, Laura Vassura, Oswald Willi, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Realizing the full potential of ultrahigh-intensity lasers for particle and radiation generation will require multi-beam arrangements due to technology limitations. Here, we investigate how to optimize their coupling with solid targets. Experimentally, we show that overlapping two intense lasers in a mirror-like configuration onto a solid with a large preplasma can greatly improve the generation of hot electrons at the target front and ion acceleration at the target backside. The underlying mechanisms are analyzed through multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations, revealing that the self-induced magnetic fields driven by the two laser beams at the target front are susceptible to reconnection, which is one possible mechanism to boost electron energization. In addition, the resistive magnetic field generated during the transport of the hot electrons in the target bulk tends to improve their collimation. Our simulations also indicate that such effects can be further enhanced by overlapping more than two laser beams.

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2024
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2. Enhanced Energy, Conversion Efficiency and Collimation of Protons Driven by High-Contrast and Ultrashort Laser Pulses

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Weipeng Yao, Ronan Lelièvre, Tessa Waltenspiel, Itamar Cohen, Amokrane Allaoua, Patrizio Antici, Arie Beck, Erez Cohen, Xavier Davoine, Emmanuel d’Humières, Quentin Ducasse, Evgeny Filippov, Cort Gautier, Laurent Gremillet, Pavlos Koseoglou, David Michaeli, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Sergey Pikuz, Ishay Pomerantz, Francois Trompier, Yuran Yuan, Francois Mathieu, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
high-power lasers, laser-driven ion acceleration, plasma mirror, particle-in-cell simulation, Technology, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Physics, QC1-999, Chemistry, QD1-999
Abstract

Progress in laser-driven proton acceleration requires increasing the proton maximum energy and laser-to-proton conversion efficiency while reducing the divergence of the proton beam. However, achieving all these qualities simultaneously has proven challenging experimentally, with the increase in beam energy often coming at the cost of beam quality. Numerical simulations suggest that coupling multi-PW laser pulses with ultrathin foils could offer a route for such simultaneous improvement. Yet, experimental investigations have been limited by the scarcity of such lasers and the need for very stringent temporal contrast conditions to prevent premature target expansion before the pulse maximum. Here, combining the newly commissioned Apollon laser facility that delivers high-power ultrashort (∼24fs) pulses with a double plasma mirror scheme to enhance its temporal contrast, we demonstrate the generation of up to 35 MeV protons with only 5 J of laser energy. This approach also achieves improved laser-to-proton energy conversion efficiency, reduced beam divergence, and optimized spatial beam profile. Therefore, despite the laser energy losses induced by the plasma mirror, the proton beams produced by this method are enhanced on all accounts compared to those obtained under standard conditions. Particle-in-cell simulations reveal that this improvement mainly results from a better space–time synchronization of the maximum of the accelerating charge-separation field with the proton bunch.

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2024
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3. High-flux neutron generation by laser-accelerated ions from single- and double-layer targets

Author

Vojtěch Horný, Sophia N. Chen, Xavier Davoine, Vincent Lelasseux, Laurent Gremillet, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract Contemporary ultraintense, short-pulse laser systems provide extremely compact setups for the production of high-flux neutron beams, such as those required for nondestructive probing of dense matter, research on neutron-induced damage in fusion devices or laboratory astrophysics studies. Here, by coupling particle-in-cell and Monte Carlo numerical simulations, we examine possible strategies to optimise neutron sources from ion-induced nuclear reactions using 1-PW, 20-fs-class laser systems. To improve the ion acceleration, the laser-irradiated targets are chosen to be ultrathin solid foils, either standing alone or preceded by a plasma layer of near-critical density to enhance the laser focusing. We compare the performance of these single- and double-layer targets, and determine their optimum parameters in terms of energy and angular spectra of the accelerated ions. These are then sent into a converter to generate neutrons via nuclear reactions on beryllium and lead nuclei. Overall, we identify configurations that result in neutron yields as high as $$\sim 10^{10}\,{\mathrm{n}}\,{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}$$ ∼ 10 10 n sr - 1 in $$\sim 1$$ ∼ 1 -cm-thick converters or instantaneous neutron fluxes above $$10^{23}\,{\mathrm{n}}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}\,{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$$ 10 23 n cm - 2 s - 1 at the backside of $$\lesssim 100$$ ≲ 100 - $$\upmu$$ μ m-thick converters. Considering a realistic repetition rate of one laser shot per minute, the corresponding time-averaged neutron yields are predicted to reach values ( $$\gtrsim 10^7\,{\mathrm{n}} \,{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$$ ≳ 10 7 n sr - 1 s - 1 ) well above the current experimental record, and this even with a mere thin foil as a primary target. A further increase in the time-averaged yield up to above $$10^8\,{\mathrm{sr}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$$ 10 8 sr - 1 s - 1 is foreseen using double-layer targets.

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2022
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4. Laboratory evidence of magnetic reconnection hampered in obliquely interacting flux tubes

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Simon Bolaños, Andrey Sladkov, Roch Smets, Sophia N. Chen, Alain Grisollet, Evgeny Filippov, Jose-Luis Henares, Viorel Nastasa, Sergey Pikuz, Raphël Riquier, Maria Safronova, Alexandre Severin, Mikhail Starodubtsev, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Science
Abstract

Magnetic reconnection acts as energy transfer process in plasma and induces processes like plasma heating, particle acceleration. Here the authors demonstrate the variation of magnetic reconnection between two flux tubes in the presence of external magnetic field.

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2022
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5. Les Jeux d’hiver de l’Arctique : jeunesse, culture et territoire. La valeur publique d’un évènement

Author

Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Jeux d'hiver de l'arctique, évènement, Jeux régionaux, jeunesse, culture, sport, Arctic Winter Games, event, Regional Games, youth, Juegos de invierno del Ártico, acontecimiento, Juegos regionales, juventud, cultura, deporte, Social Sciences
Abstract

Depuis 1970, les Jeux d’hiver de l’Arctique (JHA) rassemblent des jeunes du monde circumpolaire. Rencontre sportive et culturelle, ils valorisent le partage et l’échange entre jeunes de même que les pratiques culturelles et sportives autochtones (jeux Dene, sports arctiques). Ils entendent ainsi participer à bâtir une communauté arctique. Cet article propose une réflexion sur cet évènement et montre que ce type de rencontre, au-delà de son aspect sportif, peut constituer un levier de développement social, culturel, éducatif pour un territoire. Partant, ce texte consiste en une interrogation du mouvement sportif contemporain. En questionnant la valeur publique des JHA, il discute du paradigme sur lesquels les évènements sportifs internationaux sont aujourd’hui construits.

Published
2023
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6. Enhanced X-ray emission arising from laser-plasma confinement by a strong transverse magnetic field

Author

Evgeny D. Filippov, Sergey S. Makarov, Konstantin F. Burdonov, Weipeng Yao, Guilhem Revet, Jerome Béard, Simon Bolaños, Sophia N. Chen, Amira Guediche, Jack Hare, Denis Romanovsky, Igor Yu. Skobelev, Mikhail Starodubtsev, Andrea Ciardi, Sergey A. Pikuz, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract We analyze, using experiments and 3D MHD numerical simulations, the dynamic and radiative properties of a plasma ablated by a laser (1 ns, 10 $$^{12}$$ 12 –10 $$^{13}$$ 13 W/cm $$^2$$ 2 ) from a solid target as it expands into a homogeneous, strong magnetic field (up to 30 T) that is transverse to its main expansion axis. We find that as early as 2 ns after the start of the expansion, the plasma becomes constrained by the magnetic field. As the magnetic field strength is increased, more plasma is confined close to the target and is heated by magnetic compression. We also observe that after $$\sim 8$$ ∼ 8 ns, the plasma is being overall shaped in a slab, with the plasma being compressed perpendicularly to the magnetic field, and being extended along the magnetic field direction. This dense slab rapidly expands into vacuum; however, it contains only $$\sim 2\%$$ ∼ 2 % of the total plasma. As a result of the higher density and increased heating of the plasma confined against the laser-irradiated solid target, there is a net enhancement of the total X-ray emissivity induced by the magnetization.

Published
2021
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7. Characterization of the stability and dynamics of a laser-produced plasma expanding across a strong magnetic field

Author

Weipeng Yao, Julien Capitaine, Benjamin Khiar, Tommaso Vinci, Konstantin Burdonov, Jérôme Béard, Julien Fuchs, and Andrea Ciardi

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many studies in laboratory astrophysics, in inertial confinement fusion, and in industrial applications. Here, we present the results of large-scale three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the dynamics of a laser-produced plasma expanding into a transverse magnetic field with a strength of tens of teslas. The simulations show the plasma being confined by the strong magnetic field into a slender slab structured by the magnetized Rayleigh–Taylor instability that develops at the plasma–vacuum interface. We find that when the initial velocity of the plume is perturbed, the slab can develop kink-like motions that disrupt its propagation.

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2022
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8. Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Author

Deepak Kumar, Michal Šmíd, Sushil Singh, Alexander Soloviev, Hannes Bohlin, Konstantin Burdonov, Gashaw Fente, Alexander Kotov, Livia Lancia, Vit Lédl, Sergey Makarov, Michael Morrissey, Sergey Perevalov, Denis Romanovsky, Sergey Pikuz, Ryousuke Kodama, David Neely, Paul McKenna, Tomáš Laštovička, Mikhail Starodubtsev, Stefan Weber, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, and Julien Fuchs

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

The design of ellipsoidal plasma mirrors (EPMs) for the PEARL laser facility is presented. The EPMs achieve a magnification of 0.32 in focal spot size, and the corresponding increase in focused intensity is expected to be about 8. Designing and implementing such focusing optics for short-pulse (

Published
2019
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12. Carte blanche à André Rauch

Author

Julien Fuchs, Nancy Midol, and Gilles Bui-Xuân

Subjects
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Published
2022

14. Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma

Author

Abraham Chien, Lan Gao, Shu Zhang, Hantao Ji, Eric G. Blackman, William Daughton, Adam Stanier, Ari Le, Fan Guo, Russ Follett, Hui Chen, Gennady Fiksel, Gabriel Bleotu, Robert C. Cauble, Sophia N. Chen, Alice Fazzini, Kirk Flippo, Omar French, Dustin H. Froula, Julien Fuchs, Shinsuke Fujioka, Kenneth Hill, Sallee Klein, Carolyn Kuranz, Philip Nilson, Alexander Rasmus, and Ryunosuke Takizawa

Subjects
General Physics and Astronomy
Published
2023

15. In memoriam

Author

Laurent Besse, Julien Fuchs, Jean-Claude Richez, Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy, and Marianne Autain

Subjects
Ocean Engineering
Published
2022

16. Une histoire de l’éducation physique dans les instituts médico-éducatifs, 1838-1909. De la gymnastique médicale à l’éducation physique scolaire

Author

Julien Fuchs

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

Il y a comme un paradoxe dans l’histoire de l’education physique : si cette pedagogie du corps emerge des le xvie siecle du fait notamment de sa preoccupation hygienique et therapeutique, et que la sphere medicale encadre son developpement jusqu’au xxe siecle, l’education physique dediee aux enfants malades, deficients ou en situation de handicap demeure peu connue, les travaux des historiens s’etant surtout penches sur le processus de scolarisation de cette discipline depuis la fin du xixe s...

Published
2020

17. On the growth of the thermally modified non-resonant streaming instability

Author

Andrea Ciardi, A. Marret, Julien Fuchs, Roch Smets, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), and ANR-17-CE30-0026,PiNNaCLE,Développement d'une ligne de neutrons pulsés compacte et de haute brillance(2017)

Subjects
FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, magnetic fields, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Instability, 010305 fluids & plasmas, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particles, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Range (particle radiation), Magnetic energy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, plasmas, Magnetic field, Computational physics, instabilities, Space and Planetary Science, Streaming instability, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The cosmic rays non-resonant streaming instability is believed to be the source of substantial magnetic field amplification. In this work we investigate the effects of the ambient plasma temperature on the instability and derive analytical expressions of its growth rate in the hot, demagnetized regime of interaction. To study its non-linear evolution we perform hybrid-PIC simulations for a wide range of temperatures. We find that in the cold limit about two-thirds of the cosmic rays drift kinetic energy is converted into magnetic energy. Increasing the temperature of the ambient plasma can substantially reduce the growth rate and the magnitude of the saturated magnetic field., Under review in MNRAS

Published
2020

18. Promoting a positive image of France. Holiday camps at the service of French foreign and Algerian policy (from 1945 to the mid-1950s)

Author

Julien Fuchs, Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Faculté des sciences du sport et de l'éducation (UBO UFR SSE), and Université de Brest (UBO)

Subjects
Cultural Studies, Service (business), History, Sociology and Political Science, Political science, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, Public administration, [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, 050701 cultural studies, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

Since their creation in the 1880s, holiday camps (‘colonies de vacances’) in France have experienced continued and increasing success. Organised for the most part by local associations or municipal...

Published
2020

19. Experimental Study of the Interaction of a Laser Plasma Flow With a Transverse Magnetic Field

Author

R. Zemskov, A. A. Shaikin, A. A. Kochetkov, A. A. Soloviev, A. G. Luchinin, M. Yu. Glyavin, M. V. Starodubtsev, Ivan V. Yakovlev, S. E. Perevalov, K. F. Burdonov, A. V. Kotov, A. A. Kuzmin, Vladislav Ginzburg, Mikhail V. Morozkin, Efim A. Khazanov, Julien Fuchs, M. D. Proyavin, and I. A. Shaikin

Subjects
Physics, Quantum optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Plasma sheet, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Plasma, Radius, Laser, Molecular physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Magnetic field, law.invention, Plasma flow, Physics::Plasma Physics, law, Transverse magnetic field, Physics::Space Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, human activities
Abstract

We present the results of studying experimentally the expansion of laser plasma in a strong external magnetic field (with a magnetic flux density of 13.5 T) at various sizes of the region of plasma formation on the surface of a solid-state target. It is shown that when the size of the plasma formation region is smaller than the classical plasma braking radius, a nearly identical topology of plasma flows is observed, which is characterized by the formation of a thin plasma sheet directed along the external magnetic field. If the width of the plasma formation region is comparable with the classical plasma braking radius, an additional plasma sheet starts to be formed.

Published
2020

20. Generic method to assess transmutation feasibility for nuclear waste treatment and application to irradiated graphite

Author

Mathieu Rasson, Julien Fuchs, Grégoire Augé, Jean-Louis Quéri, Gérard Laurent, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and École polytechnique (X)

Subjects
Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph), Nuclear Energy and Engineering, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

Graphite-moderated nuclear reactors have already produced more than 250000 tons of irradiated nuclear graphite, or i-graphite, world-wide. The sustainability of this technology relies on the end-of-life management of its moderator, which is activated into a long-lived nuclear waste, by neutron fluxes, during operating time. In particular, C14 is created. Nuclear transmutation, enabled by laser-driven particle acceleration, has been envisioned as a potential novel treatment scheme for long-lived nuclear waste. By triggering controlled nuclear reactions with energetic particles, long-lived radionuclides could be transformed into stable isotopes. Such a system could treat the C14 nuclei trapped within the i-graphite matrix, which is difficult to isolate by other means. This work performs a quantitative preliminary study of this transmutation scheme, in order to assess its feasibility at an industrial scale. The method used can be transposed to assess any transmutation scheme using a beam of particles directly sent on the material to be treated. First, a nuclear interaction channel which transmutes C14 nuclei without creating new long-lived radionuclides is identified. It consists in the choice of a type of particle, among which protons, gamma photons and neutrons can all be accelerated by laser-matter interaction; and it is completed by the adequate energy at which this particle must be sent on i-graphite. To that end, the nuclear cross-sections of C12, C13 and C14 are reviewed, neglecting other impurities in i-graphite. Then, based on the interaction channel identification, the energy cost of this scheme is estimated. Protons between 1 and 5 MeV make it possible to transmute C14 without creating any new long-lived activity. However, our result show that, even in this favorable reaction channel, the transmutation energy cost is too high for an i-graphite transmutation scheme to be feasible., Discussion clarified, results unchanged

Published
2022

21. Laboratory modelling of equatorial ‘tongue’ accretion channels in young stellar objects caused by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Author

Alexander Soloviev, Andrea Ciardi, R. Bonito, A. Korzhimanov, K. F. Burdonov, M. Romanova, M. V. Starodubtsev, W. P. Yao, A. Sladkov, Julien Fuchs, S. N. Chen, R. Zemskov, Salvatore Orlando, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), IAP, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603155, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (NIPNE), IFIN-HH, Cornell University [New York], European Project: ERC787539,GENESIS, Institute of Applied Physics (IAP, Nizhny Novgorod), and Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (UNIBO)

Subjects
Physics, Young stellar object, accretion disks, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, stars: pre-main sequence, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Accretion (astrophysics), accretion, Space and Planetary Science, instabilities, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Rayleigh–Taylor instability, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

This work was granted access to the HPC resources of MesoPSL financed by the Region Ile de France and the project EquipMeso (reference ANR-10-EQPX29-01) of the programme Investissements d’Avenir supervised by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche.; International audience; Context. The equatorial accretion scenario, caused by the development of the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability at the disk edge, was suggested by accurate three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modelling, but no observational or experimental confirmation of such phenomena has been evidenced yet.Aims. We studied the propagation of a laterally extended laser-generated plasma stream across a magnetic field and investigated if this kind of structure can be scaled to the case of equatorial ‘tongue’ accretion channels in young stellar objects (YSOs); if so, this would support the possibility of equatorial accretion in young accreting stars.Methods. We conducted a scaled laboratory experiment at the PEARL laser facility. The experiment consists in an optical laser pulse that is focused onto the surface of a Teflon target. The irradiation of the target leads to the expansion of a hot plasma stream into the vacuum, perpendicularly to an externally applied magnetic field. We used a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to diagnose the plasma stream propagation along two axes, to obtain the three-dimensional distribution of the plasma stream.Results. The laboratory experiment shows the propagation of a laterally extended laser-generated plasma stream across a magnetic field. We demonstrate that: (i) such a stream is subject to the development of the RT instability, and (ii) the stream, decomposed into tongues, is able to efficiently propagate perpendicular to the magnetic field. Based on numerical simulations, we show that the origin of the development of the instability in the laboratory is similar to that observed in MHD models of equatorial tongue accretion in YSOs.Conclusions. As we verify that the laboratory plasma scales favourably to accretion inflows of YSOs, our laboratory results support the argument in favour of the possibility of the RT-instability-caused equatorial tongue accretion scenario in the astrophysical case.

Published
2022

22. In Memoriam

Author

Rémi Richard, Julien Fuchs, and Jacques Gleyse

Subjects
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Published
2023

23. Enhancement of the non-resonant streaming instability by particle collisions

Author

Loïc Nicolas, Alexis Marret, Julien Fuchs, Andrea Ciardi, Roch Smets, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), and Observatoire de Paris

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Physics - Space Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Space Physics (physics.space-ph), Physics - Plasma Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph]
Abstract

Streaming cosmic rays can power the exponential growth of a seed magnetic field by exciting a non-resonant instability that feeds on their bulk kinetic energy. By generating the necessary turbulent magnetic field, it is thought to play a key role in the confinement and acceleration of cosmic rays at shocks. In this work we present hybrid-Particle-In-Cell simulations of the non-resonant mode including Monte Carlo collisions, and investigate the interplay between the pressure anisotropies produced by the instability and particle collisions in the background plasma. Simulations of poorly ionized plasmas confirm the rapid damping of the instability by proton-neutral collisions predicted by linear fluid theory calculations. In contrast we find that Coulomb collisions in fully ionized plasmas do not oppose the growth of the magnetic field, but under certain conditions suppress the pressure anisotropies and actually enhance the magnetic field amplification., Accepted to be published in Physical Review Letters

Published
2021

24. Design and commissioning of a neutron counter adapted to high-intensity laser matter interactions

Author

Mirela Cerchez, M. Gugiu, S. Dorard, Julien Fuchs, V. Lelasseux, S. Aogaki, K. Burdonov, P.-A. Söderström, Oswald Willi, A. Fazzini, Sophia Chen, F. Rotaru, S. A. Pikuz, F. Negoita, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-17-CE30-0026,PiNNaCLE,Développement d'une ligne de neutrons pulsés compacte et de haute brillance(2017)

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, High intensity, Nuclear engineering, Detector, Scintillator, Modular design, Laser, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Neutron source, Neutron, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation
Abstract

International audience; The advent of multi-PW laser facilities world-wide opens new opportunities for nuclear physics. With this perspective, we developed a neutron counter taking into account the specifics of a high-intensity laser environment. Using GEANT4 simulations and prototype testings, we report on the design of a modular neutron counter based on boron-10 enriched scintillators and a high-density polyethylene moderator. This detector has been calibrated using a plutonium-beryllium neutron source and commissioned during an actual neutron-producing laser experiment at the LULI2000 facility (France). An overall efficiency of 4.37(59)% has been demonstrated during calibration with a recovery time of a few hundred microseconds after laser-plasma interaction.

Published
2021

25. Characterization of Neutron Beams Generated in High-Intensity Interactions for Nuclear Physics Experiments

Author

Julien Fuchs, Par-Anders Soderstrom, Florin Rotaru, Sandra Dorard, Mirela Cerchez, Oswald Willi, Vincent Lelasseux, Soichiro Aogaki, Sophia Chen, S. A. Pikuz, Alice Fazzini, Florin Negoita, K. F. Burdonov, and Marius Gugiu

Subjects
Physics, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Modular design, Scintillator, Laser, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, Calibration, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Neutron source, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, business
Abstract

The advent of multi-PW laser facilities world-wide opens new opportunities for nuclear physics. With this perspective, we developed a high efficiency neutron counter taking into account the specifics of a high intensity laser environment. Using GEANT4 simulations and prototype testings, we report on the design of a modular neutron-counter based on boron-10 enriched scintillators and high-density polyethylene moderator. This detector has been calibrated using a plutonium-beryllium neutron source and commissioned during an actual neutrons producing laser experiment at theLULI2000 facility (France). An overall efficiency of 4.37(59)% has been demonstrated during calibration with a recovery time of a few hundreds microseconds after laser-plasma interaction. We also tested using units of this detector in neutron time-of-flight configuration during the commissioning of the 1PW arm of the Apollon laser facility. Neutrons produced by the conversion of proton accelerated by the 1PW arm of the Apollon facility have been detected, of which we will present preliminary results.

Published
2021

26. Apollon Facility Short Focal Length Area Commissioning

Author

L. Lancia, K. F. Burdonov, T. Ceccotti, V. Lelasseaux, Fabien Quéré, F. Perez, Julien Fuchs, A. Leblanc, P. Forestier-Colleoni, A. Fazzini, and S. A. Pikuz

Subjects
Physics, Optics, law, business.industry, Focal length, Laser, business, Nominal power (radio broadcasting), Beam (structure), Laser beams, law.invention, Pulse (physics)
Abstract

We present here the results of the commissioning of the "short focal length" area, which was performed with the first available laser beam of the Apollon laser facility (Saclay, France), i.e. using the presently available F2 beam at a nominal power of one petawatt. This beam delivered laser pulses of 10 J average on-target energy with pulse durations of 25 fs.

Published
2021

27. Finisterian sea classes and their spatial diffusion. The challenges of an educational model rooted in local activism

Author

Malo Camus-Le Pape, Emmanuelle Peyvel, Julien Fuchs, Nicolas Bernard, and Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Subjects
4. Education, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0507 social and economic geography, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, 021107 urban & regional planning, 02 engineering and technology, 14. Life underwater, [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, 050703 geography, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, General Environmental Science
Abstract

L’article analyse les consequences de la diffusion des classes de mer qui, en pres de soixante ans d’existence, ont evolue d’une experience finisterienne vers un dispositif educatif plebiscite par nombre d’enseignants. Cette recherche montre que ce sont d’abord les initiatives locales qui ont permis le developpement d’un modele de classe de mer, en lien avec les services de l’Education nationale. La diffusion de ce phenomene s’accompagne d’evolutions a l’echelle de la France, mais les reseaux locaux restent predominants dans l’organisation des classes de mer, notamment grâce aux appuis de pouvoirs publics qui les considerent comme une initiative pedagogique a valoriser autant qu’une opportunite de developpement social et economique pour le territoire. L’article cherche enfin a eclairer les difficultes actuelles du modele initial, mis a l’epreuve des mutations societales contemporaines.

Published
2021

28. Frankophilie, Germanophilie und 'Elsässertum' in den Jugendbewegungen Straßburgs zwischen 1918 und 1925. Patriotismus – Körpererziehung – Naturbegeisterung

Author

Jean Saint-Martin, Julien Fuchs, Denis Jallat, Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Sport et sciences sociales (E3S), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)

Subjects
Government, [SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education, Identity (social science), Gender studies, General Medicine, Alsace, language.human_language, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical education, German, Political science, Religious education, National identity, language, francophilie, sport, [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, mouvements de jeunesse
Abstract

International audience; In 1918, youth organizations were formed in Alsace, particularly in Strasbourg, between France and Germany. This article aims first of all to understand the modalities of their development in the post-war period, by showing, in particular, their diversity (there are indeed Scout movements, religious associations, etc., both of which propose to supervise the youth). This article also attempts to understand the position about issues of national identity of these groups, that educate and train youth, and promote an original form of body education. The youth movements, heirs of the associations of the Reichsland period on which they are based – although this heritage must often be nuanced – differ in their relationship with France. This rapprochement cannot be understood without the reference to a true regional ethos or, in other words, an “Alsatian identity”.

Published
2019

29. Characterization of the stability and dynamics of a laser-produced plasma expanding across strong magnetic field

Author

Weipeng Yao, Julien Capitaine, Benjamin Khiar, Tommaso Vinci, Konstantin Burdonov, Jérôme Béard, Julien Fuchs, Andrea Ciardi, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LERMA Cergy (LERMA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), DPHY, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau], ONERA-Université Paris-Saclay, A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), ANR-10-EQPX-0029,EQUIP@MESO,Equipement d'excellence de calcul intensif de Mesocentres coordonnés - Tremplin vers le calcul petaflopique et l'exascale(2010), and European Project: 787539,GENESIS - 10.3030/787539

Subjects
[PHYS]Physics [physics], Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], Physics::Plasma Physics, Physics::Space Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physics - Plasma Physics
Abstract

International audience; Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many new studies in laboratory astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion, and in industrial applications. Here we present the results of large-scale, three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the dynamics of a laser-produced plasma expanding into a transverse magnetic field with strength of tens of Tesla. The simulations show the plasma being confined by the strong magnetic field into a slender slab structured by the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability that develops at the plasma-vacuum interface. We find that by perturbing the initial velocity of the plume the slab can develops kink-like motion which disrupt its propagation, as observed in recent experiments.

Published
2021

30. Inferring possible magnetic field strength of accreting inflows in EXor-type objects from scaled laboratory experiments

Author

Mikhail Gushchin, Rosaria Bonito, K. Gubskiy, Efim A. Khazanov, Julien Fuchs, A. V. Strikovskiy, V. I. Gundorin, A. Kuznetsov, S. N. Ryazantsev, S. A. Pikuz, Salvatore Orlando, Alexander Soloviev, W. P. Yao, I. Shaykin, Teresa Giannini, R. Zemskov, Ivan V. Yakovlev, Shihua Chen, N. A. Aidakina, I. Zudin, Andrey Shaykin, M. V. Starodubtsev, Vladislav Ginzburg, K. Burdonov, A. A. Kuzmin, J. Béard, G. Revet, A. A. Kochetkov, Andrea Ciardi, S. V. Korobkov, Costanza Argiroffi, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institute of Applied Physics of RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the RAS (JIHT), The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) [Moscow, Russia], This work was partly done within the LABEX Plas@Par, the DIM ACAV funded by the Region Ile-de-France, and supported by Grant No. 11-IDEX- 0004-02 from ANR, The research leading to these results is supported by Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELINP) Phase II, a project co-financed by the Romanian Government and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund, and by the project ELI-RO-2020-23 funded by IFA (Romania)., European Project: ERC787539,GENESIS, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), HEP, INSPIRE, Burdonov K., Bonito R., Giannini T., Aidakina N., Argiroffi C., Beard J., Chen S.N., Ciardi A., Ginzburg V., Gubskiy K., Gundorin V., Gushchin M., Kochetkov A., Korobkov S., Kuzmin A., Kuznetsov A., Pikuz S., Revet G., Ryazantsev S., Shaykin A., Shaykin I., Soloviev A., Starodubtsev M., Strikovskiy A., Yao W., Yakovlev I., Zemskov R., Zudin I., Khazanov E., Orlando S., and Fuchs J.

Subjects
Shock wave, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Field strength, Astrophysics, stars: pre-main sequence, 01 natural sciences, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, accretion, 0103 physical sciences, Protostar, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], accretion disks, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, Plasma, shock waves, Accretion, accretion disks, Accretion (astrophysics), Magnetic field, T Tauri star, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, instabilities, stars: individual: V1118 Ori, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Aims. EXor-type objects are protostars that display powerful UV-optical outbursts caused by intermittent and powerful events of magnetospheric accretion. These objects are not yet well investigated and are quite difficult to characterize. Several parameters, such as plasma stream velocities, characteristic densities, and temperatures, can be retrieved from present observations. As of yet, however, there is no information about the magnetic field values and the exact underlying accretion scenario is also under discussion. Methods. We use laboratory plasmas, created by a high power laser impacting a solid target or by a plasma gun injector, and make these plasmas propagate perpendicularly to a strong external magnetic field. The propagating plasmas are found to be well scaled to the presently inferred parameters of EXor-type accretion event, thus allowing us to study the behaviour of such episodic accretion processes in scaled conditions. Results. We propose a scenario of additional matter accretion in the equatorial plane, which claims to explain the increased accretion rates of the EXor objects, supported by the experimental demonstration of effective plasma propagation across the magnetic field. In particular, our laboratory investigation allows us to determine that the field strength in the accretion stream of EXor objects, in a position intermediate between the truncation radius and the stellar surface, should be of the order of 100 G. This, in turn, suggests a field strength of a few kilogausses on the stellar surface, which is similar to values inferred from observations of classical T Tauri stars.

Published
2021

31. Laboratory evidence for proton energization by collisionless shock surfing

Author

G. Revet, K. Burdonov, J. Béard, A. Fazzini, E. D. Filippov, S. Bolaños, Julien Fuchs, V. Lelasseux, S. A. Pikuz, D. C. Popescu, Salvatore Orlando, W. P. Yao, V. Nastasa, Patrizio Antici, Andrea Ciardi, S. Kisyov, Quentin Moreno, Marco Miceli, Xavier Ribeyre, Emmanuel d'Humières, R. Diab, Sophia Chen, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, FRA, CAN, CZE, ROU, RUS, Yao W., Fazzini A., Chen S.N., Burdonov K., Antici P., Beard J., Bolanos S., Ciardi A., Diab R., Filippov E.D., Kisyov S., Lelasseux V., Miceli M., Moreno Q., Nastasa V., Orlando S., Pikuz S., Popescu D.C., Revet G., Ribeyre X., d'Humieres E., Fuchs J., Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)

Subjects
Shock wave, Proton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Acceleration, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Bow shock (aerodynamics), 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Mechanics, plasmas, Physics - Plasma Physics, Charged particle, Computer Science::Computers and Society, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], Magnetic field, Shock (mechanics), Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Supernova, 13. Climate action, Physics::Space Physics, Physics::Accelerator Physics
Abstract

Charged particles can be accelerated to high energies by collisionless shock waves in astrophysical environments, such as supernova remnants. By interacting with the magnetized ambient medium, these shocks can transfer energy to particles. Despite increasing efforts in the characterization of these shocks from satellite measurements at Earth’s bow shock as well as powerful numerical simulations, the underlying acceleration mechanism or a combination thereof is still widely debated. Here we show that astrophysically relevant super-critical quasi-perpendicular magnetized collisionless shocks can be produced and characterized in the laboratory. We observe the characteristics of super-criticality in the shock profile as well as the energization of protons picked up from the ambient gas to hundreds of kiloelectronvolts. Kinetic simulations modelling the laboratory experiment identified shock surfing as the proton acceleration mechanism. Our observations not only provide direct evidence of early-stage ion energization by collisionless shocks but also highlight the role played by this particular mechanism in energizing ambient ions to feed further stages of acceleration. Furthermore, our results open the door to future laboratory experiments investigating the possible transition to other mechanisms, when increasing the magnetic field strength, or the effect that induced shock front ripples could have on acceleration processes. Proton acceleration by a super-critical collisionless shock is observed in laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations suggest shock surfing as the underlying acceleration mechanism.

Published
2021

32. Laboratory disruption of scaled astrophysical outflows by a misaligned magnetic field

Author

Mirela Cerchez, Drew Higginson, E. D. Filippov, T. Gangolf, S. A. Pikuz, I. Yu. Skobelev, B. Khiar, G. Revet, Tommaso Vinci, B. Olmi, Salvatore Orlando, J. Béard, O. Willi, Rosaria Bonito, M. V. Starodubtsev, Costanza Argiroffi, M. Safronova, M. Ouillé, S. N. Ryazantsev, Julien Fuchs, Andrea Ciardi, Andrea Mignone, Sophia Chen, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Applied Physics (IAP, Nizhny Novgorod), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Flash Center for Computational Science (FCCS), University of Chicago, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the RAS (JIHT), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica [Palermo] (DiFC), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn IFIN HH, ELI NP Dept, Reactorului Str 30, Magurele 077125, Romania, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Università di Torino, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) [Moscow, Russia], Revet G., Khiar B., Filippov E., Argiroffi C., Beard J., Bonito R., Cerchez M., Chen S.N., Gangolf T., Higginson D.P., Mignone A., Olmi B., Ouille M., Ryazantsev S.N., Skobelev I.Y., Safronova M.I., Starodubtsev M., Vinci T., Willi O., Pikuz S., Orlando S., Ciardi A., and Fuchs J.

Subjects
Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nozzle, outflows, magnetohydrodynamics(MHD), shockwaves, astrophysical jets, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Collimated light, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, Ambient field, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Magnetic pressure, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Laboratory astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Jet (fluid), Multidisciplinary, Laser-produced plasmas, General Chemistry, Physics - Plasma Physics, Magnetic field, Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Outflow, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The shaping of astrophysical outflows into bright, dense, and collimated jets due to magnetic pressure is here investigated using laboratory experiments. Here we look at the impact on jet collimation of a misalignment between the outflow, as it stems from the source, and the magnetic field. For small misalignments, a magnetic nozzle forms and redirects the outflow in a collimated jet. For growing misalignments, this nozzle becomes increasingly asymmetric, disrupting jet formation. Our results thus suggest outflow/magnetic field misalignment to be a plausible key process regulating jet collimation in a variety of objects from our Sun’s outflows to extragalatic jets. Furthermore, they provide a possible interpretation for the observed structuring of astrophysical jets. Jet modulation could be interpreted as the signature of changes over time in the outflow/ambient field angle, and the change in the direction of the jet could be the signature of changes in the direction of the ambient field., Mass outflow is a common process in astrophysical objects. Here the authors investigate in which conditions an astrophysically-scaled laser-produced plasma flow can be collimated and evolves in the presence of a misaligned external magnetic field.

Published
2021

33. Enhanced x-ray emission arising from laser-plasma confinement by a strong transverse magnetic field

Author

Amira Guediche, Julien Fuchs, S. A. Pikuz, J. Béard, K. F. Burdonov, S. Bolaños, W. P. Yao, M. V. Starodubtsev, Jack Hare, E. D. Filippov, G. Revet, Igor Yu. Skobelev, Denis Romanovsky, Sophia Chen, S. S. Makarov, Andrea Ciardi, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the RAS (JIHT), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Institute of Applied Physics of RAS, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Imperial College London, The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) [Moscow, Russia], Lobachevsky State University [Nizhni Novgorod], Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
Materials science, Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Magnetically confined plasmas, 01 natural sciences, Article, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Magnetization, law, Physics::Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Emissivity, Radiative transfer, 010306 general physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Multidisciplinary, Laser-produced plasmas, Plasma, Laser, Physics - Plasma Physics, Magnetic field, Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Transverse plane, Physics::Space Physics, Medicine, Atomic physics, Magnetohydrodynamics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

We analyze, using experiments and 3D MHD numerical simulations, the dynamics and radiative properties of a plasma ablated by a laser (1 ns, 10$^{12}$-10$^{13}$ W/cm$^2$) from a solid target, as it expands into a homogeneous, strong magnetic field (up to 30 T) transverse to its main expansion axis. We find that as soon as 2 ns after the start of the expansion, the plasma becomes constrained by the magnetic field. As the magnetic field strength is increased, more plasma is confined close to the target and is heated by magnetic compression. We also observe a dense slab that rapidly expands into vacuum after ~ 8 ns; however, this slab contains only ~ 2 % of the total plasma. As a result of the higher density and increased heating of the confined plasma, there is a net enhancement of the total x-ray emissivity induced by the magnetization., 15 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information, submitted to PRL

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2020

34. Laboratory evidence for asymmetric accretion structure upon slanted matter impact in young stars

Author

Rosaria Bonito, Salvatore Orlando, O. Willi, Julien Fuchs, S. N. Chen, K. F. Burdonov, Mirela Cerchez, J. Béard, G. Revet, S. A. Pikuz, M. V. Starodubtsev, Rafael L. Rodríguez, E. D. Filippov, Costanza Argiroffi, Andrea Ciardi, G. Espinosa, S. Bolanos, Michal Smid, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Burdonov K., Revet G., Bonito R., Argiroffi C., Beard J., Bolanos S., Cerchez M., Chen S.N., Ciardi A., Espinosa G., Filippov E., Pikuz S., Rodriguez R., Smid M., Starodubtsev M., Willi O., Orlando S., Fuchs J., Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the RAS (JIHT), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Institute of Applied Physics (IAP, Nizhny Novgorod), Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), This work was partly done within the LABEX Plas@Par, the DIM ACAV funded by the Region Ilede-France, This work was supported by Grant No. 11-IDEX- 0004-02 from ANR (France), ANR-12-BS09-0025,SILAMPA,Simuler en laboratoire des écoulements de plasmas magnétisés pour l'astrophysique(2012), European Project: ERC787539,GENESIS, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), and Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Shock wave, stars, Accretion, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Young stellar object, FOS: Physical sciences, X-rays: stars, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Shock waves, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Ejecta, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Chromosphere, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, pre-main sequence -X-rays, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Planetary system, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], accretion disks -instabilities -magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) -shock waves -stars, Accretion (astrophysics), Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Instabilities, Accretion disks, Stars: pre-main sequence, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Aims. Investigating the process of matter accretion onto forming stars through scaled experiments in the laboratory is important in order to better understand star and planetary system formation and evolution. Such experiments can indeed complement observations by providing access to the processes with spatial and temporal resolution. A previous investigation revealed the existence of a two-component stream: a hot shell surrounding a cooler inner stream. The shell was formed by matter laterally ejected upon impact and refocused by the local magnetic field. That laboratory investigation was limited to normal incidence impacts. However, in young stellar objects, the complex structure of magnetic fields causes variability of the incident angles of the accretion columns. This led us to undertake an investigation, using laboratory plasmas, of the consequence of having a slanted accretion impacting a young star. Methods. Here, we used high power laser interactions and strong magnetic field generation in the laboratory, complemented by numerical simulations, to study the asymmetry induced upon accretion structures when columns of matter impact the surface of young stars with an oblique angle. Results. Compared to the scenario where matter accretes perpendicularly to the star surface, we observe a strongly asymmetric plasma structure, strong lateral ejecta of matter, poor confinement of the accreted material, and reduced heating compared to the normal incidence case. Thus, slanted accretion is a configuration that seems to be capable of inducing perturbations of the chromosphere and hence possibly influencing the level of activity of the corona.

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2020

35. Modelling energy deposition in TR image plate detectors for various ion types

Author

Julien Fuchs, V. Lelasseux, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-17-CE30-0026,PiNNaCLE,Développement d'une ligne de neutrons pulsés compacte et de haute brillance(2017), and European Project: ERC787539,GENESIS

Subjects
010302 applied physics, Imagination, Chemical substance, Materials science, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Detector, Linear energy transfer, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Ion, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Deposition (phase transition), business, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Ip address, Energy (signal processing), media_common
Abstract

International audience; Ion species discrimination method by linear energy transfer measurement in Fujifilm BAS-SR imaging plate M. Nishiuchi et al-This content was downloaded from IP address 92.184.117.159 on 12/11/2020 at 15:45

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2020

38. Conclusion

Author

Julien Fuchs

Published
2020

42. Le temps des jolies colonies de vacances. Au cœur de la construction d’un service public, 1944-1960

Author

Julien Fuchs, Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Brest), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS), Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)

Subjects
IVe République, [SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education, France, 16. Peace & justice, colonies de vacances, [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract

International audience; Entre 1944 et 1960, les colonies de vacances deviennent en France un phénomène social majeur, concernant des centaines de milliers d’enfants et d’adolescents. Soucieux d’accompagner l’expansion de ces structures nées d’initiatives privées, l’État bâtit à leur encontre une politique spécifique et leur dédie une administration. Autour de la figure d’Étienne Bécart, celle-ci est en charge de règlementer le secteur, d’organiser son subventionnement, de structurer un système d’inspection et d’impulser une orientation pédagogique en s’intéressant notamment à la formation des cadres. Basé sur les archives de la Direction générale de la Jeunesse et des Sports, mais aussi sur des sources audiovisuelles originales, ce livre montre comment un service public des colonies se construit en prenant appui notamment, mais sans exclusivité, sur l’univers laïc, et en confrontant ses intentions généreuses à d’incontournables limites dans cette société française de la IVe République.

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2020

43. Growth of concomitant laser-driven collisionless and resistive electron filamentation instabilities over large spatiotemporal scales

Author

C. Ruyer, M. Swantusch, L. Lancia, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, S. Bolaños, M. Grech, H. Pépin, Patrizio Antici, J. Böker, Marco Borghesi, M. V. Starodubtsev, Ronnie Shepherd, L. Gremillet, V. Dervieux, Oswald Willi, Julien Fuchs, Sophia Chen, Bruno Albertazzi, Caterina Riconda, Lorenzo Romagnani, Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratory of Separation Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Changchun Branch] (CAS), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications - INRS (EMT-INRS), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique [Québec] (INRS)-Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Institute of Applied Physics (IAP, Nizhny Novgorod), DAM Île-de-France (DAM/DIF), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), and ANR-17-CE30-0026,PiNNaCLE,Développement d'une ligne de neutrons pulsés compacte et de haute brillance(2017)

Subjects
Electromagnetic field, Physics, Resistive touchscreen, General Physics and Astronomy, Plasma, Electron, Laser, 01 natural sciences, Instability, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Weibel instability, Filamentation, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], Physics::Plasma Physics, law, Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Collective processes in plasmas often induce microinstabilities that play an important role in many space or laboratory plasma environments. Particularly notable is the Weibel-type current filamentation instability, which is believed to drive the creation of collisionless shocks in weakly magnetized astrophysical plasmas. Here, this instability class is studied through interactions of ultraintense and short laser pulses with solid foils, leading to localized generation of megaelectronvolt electrons. Proton radiographic measurements of both low- and high-resistivity targets show two distinct, superimposed electromagnetic field patterns arising from the interpenetration of the megaelectronvolt electrons and the background plasma. Particle-in-cell simulations and theoretical estimates suggest that the collisionless Weibel instability building up in the dilute expanding plasmas formed at the target surfaces causes the observed azimuthally symmetric electromagnetic filaments. For a sufficiently high resistivity of the target foil, an additional resistive instability is triggered in the bulk target, giving rise to radially elongated filaments. The data reveal the growth of both filamentation instabilities over large temporal (tens of picoseconds) and spatial (hundreds of micrometres) scales. In the interaction of ultraintense, short laser pulses with solid targets, the collisionless Weibel instability is observed. For a sufficiently high resistivity of the target, an additional resistive instability appears.

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2020
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45. Dédicace

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Julien Fuchs

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2020

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