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Proton radiography is a technique extensively used to resolve magnetic field structures in high energy density plasmas, revealing a whole variety of interesting phenomena such as magnetic reconnection and collisionless shocks found in…

The proton radiography diagnostic is widely used in laser-plasma experiments to make magnetic field measurements. Recent developments in analysis have enabled quantitative reconstruction of path-integrated magnetic field values, but making…

Proton radiography is a central diagnostic technique for measuring electromagnetic (EM) fields in high-energy-density, laser-produced plasmas. In this technique, protons traverse the plasma where they accumulate small EM deflections which…

Proton radiography has proved increasingly successful as a diagnostic for electric and magnetic fields in high energy density physics experiments. Most experiments use target-normal-sheath-acceleration sources with a wide energy range in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Christopher Arran , Christopher P. Ridgers , Nigel C. Woolsey

Proton radiography is an important diagnostic method for laser plasma experiments, and is particularly important in the analysis of magnetized plasmas. The theory of radiographic image analysis has heretofore only permitted somewhat limited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Carlo Graziani , Petros Tzeferacos , Donald Q. Lamb , Chikang Li

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing fields, proton imaging is a non-perturbative measurement that can…

Shadowgraphy is a technique widely used to diagnose objects or systems in various fields in physics and engineering. In shadowgraphy, an optical beam is deflected by the object and then the intensity modulation is captured on a screen…

We propose an innovative method for proton radiography based on nuclear emulsion film detectors, a technique in which images are obtained by measuring the position and the residual range of protons passing through the patient's body. For…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Braccini , A. Ereditato , I. Kreslo , U. Moser , C. Pistillo , S. Studer , P. Scampoli , A. Coray , E. Pedroni

Proton radiography is a technique in high energy density science to diagnose magnetic and/or electric fields in a plasma by firing a proton beam and detecting its modulated intensity profile on a screen. Current approaches to retrieve the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 M. F. Kasim , A. F. A. Bott , P. Tzeferacos , D. Q. Lamb , G. Gregori , S. M. Vinko

We report a design and implementation of proton radiography with an in situ reference X-ray image of a mesh to precisely measure non-uniform magnetic fields in expanding plasmas at the OMEGA and OMEGA EP laser facilities. The technique has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 S. Malko , C. Johnson , D. B. Schaeffer , W. Fox , G. Fiksel

Magnetic resonance imaging is a three-dimensional imaging technique, where a gradient of the magnetic field is used to interrogate spin resonances with spatial resolution. The application of this technique to probe the coherence of atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Mateusz Mazelanik , Adam Leszczyński , Tomasz Szawełło , Michał Parniak

Proton radiography is a useful diagnostic of high energy density (HED) plasmas under active theoretical and experimental development. In this paper we describe a new simulation tool that interacts realistic laser-driven point-like proton…

We report a technique of proton deflectometry which uses a grid and an in situ reference x-ray grid image for precise measurements of magnetic fields in high-energy density plasmas. A D$^3$He fusion implosion provides a bright point-source…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 C. L. Johnson , S. Malko , W. Fox , D. B. Schaeffer , G. Fiksel , P. J. Adrian , G. Sutcliffe , A. Birkel

Non-destructive X-ray imaging of thruster parts and assemblies down to the scale of several micrometers is a key technology for electric propulsion research and engineering. It allows for thorough product assurance, rapid state acquisition…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Jörn Krenzer , Felix Reichenbach , Jochen Schein

Proton therapy is a cancer treatment technique currently in growth worldwide. It offers advantages with respect to conventional X-ray and $\gamma$-ray radiotherapy, in particular, a better control of the dose deposition allowing to reach a…

Proton imaging is a powerful tool for probing electromagnetic fields in a plasma, providing a path-integrated map of the field topology. However, in cases where the field structure is highly inhomogeneous, inferring spatial properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Joseph Levesque , Carolyn Kuranz , Timothy Handy , Mario Manuel , Frederico Fiuza

Proton radiography is used in various high-energy-density (HED) plasma experiments. In this paper, we describe a Monte Carlo and ray-tracing simulation tool called MPRAD that can be used for modeling the deflection of proton beams in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yingchao Lu , Hui Li , Kirk A. Flippo , Kwyntero Kelso , Andy Liao , Shengtai Li , Edison Liang

We introduce the concept of computerized tomographic microscopy in magnetic resonance imaging using the magnetic fields and field gradients from a ferromagnetic probe. We investigate a configuration where a two-dimensional sample is under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 Mladen Barbic , Axel Scherer

We apply tomography, a general method for reconstructing 3-D distributions from multiple projections, to reconstruct the momentum distribution of electrons produced via strong field photoionization. The projections are obtained by rotating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-09-28 C Smeenk , L Arissian , A Staudte , D M Villeneuve , P B Corkum

Strong magnetic fields are naturally self-generated in high-power, laser-solid interactions through the Biermann-battery mechanism. This work experimentally characterizes the 3D location and strength of these fields, rather than…

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