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Item Acceleration of laser-driven ion bunch from double-layer thin foils(American Institute of Physics, 2012) Wang, X.; Yu, W.; Liang, E.; Yu, M.Y.Generation of monoenergetic ion bunch from a double-layer thin-foil target irradiated by an intense linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The protons in the front low-density hydrogen target layer accelerated by the space-charge field of the laser-driven hot electrons can penetrate through the high-Z high-mass and high-density ion layer, resulting in an energetic proton bunch. A part of the latter is further accelerated by the space-charge field of the hot electrons in the vacuum behind the high-Z ion layer. With this scheme, quasimonoenergetic proton bunches can be produced using presently available laser pulses of moderate contrast and durationItem Extracting Respiratory Signals from Thoracic Cone Beam CT Projections(2012-10) Yan, H.; Wang, X.; Yin, W.; Pan, T.; Ahmad, M.; Mou, X.; Cervino, L.; Jia, X.; Jiang, S.B.Patient respiratory signal associated with the cone beam CT (CBCT) projections is important for lung cancer radiotherapy. In contrast to monitoring an external surrogate of respiration, such signal can be extracted directly from the CBCT projections. In this paper, we propose a novel local principle component analysis (LPCA) method to extract the respiratory signal by distinguishing the respiration motion-induced content change 25 from the gantry rotation-induced content change in the CBCT projections. The LPCA method is evaluated by comparing with three state-of-the-art projection-based methods, namely, the Amsterdam Shroud (AS) method, the intensity analysis (IA) method, and the Fourier-transform based phase analysis (FT-p) method. The clinical CBCT projection data of eight patients, acquired under various clinical scenarios, were used to investigate 30 the performance of each method. We found that the proposed LPCA method has demonstrated the best overall performance for cases tested and thus is a promising technique for extracting respiratory signal. We also identified the applicability of each existing method.Item High e+/e− Ratio Dense Pair Creation with 1021W.cm−2 Laser Irradiating Solid Targets(Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015) Liang, E.; Clarke, T.; Henderson, A.; Fu, W.; Lo, W.; Taylor, D.; Chaguine, P.; Zhou, S.; Hua, Y.; Cen, X.; Wang, X.; Kao, J.; Hasson, H.; Dyer, G.; Serratto, K.; Riley, N.; Donovan, M.; Ditmire, T.We report results of new pair creation experiments using ~100 Joule pulses of the Texas Petawatt Laser to irradiate solid gold and platinum targets, with intensities up to ~1.9 × 10(21) W.cm(-2) and pulse durations as short as ~130 fs. Positron to electron (e+/e-) ratios >15% were observed for many thick disk and rod targets, with the highest e+/e- ratio reaching ~50% for a Pt rod. The inferred pair yield was ~ few ×10(10) with emerging pair density reaching ~10(15)/cm(3) so that the pair skin depth becomes < pair jet transverse size. These results represent major milestones towards the goal of creating a significant quantity of dense pair-dominated plasmas with e+/e- approaching 100% and pair skin depth ≪ pair plasma size, which will have wide-ranging applications to astrophysics and fundamental physics.Item Magnetotransport in type-enriched single-wall carbon nanotube networks(American Physical Society, 2018) Wang, X.; Gao, W.; Li, X.; Zhang, Q.; Nanot, S.; Hároz, E.H.; Kono, J.; Rice, W.D.Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) exhibit a wide range of physical phenomena depending on their chirality. Nanotube networks typically contain a broad mixture of chiralities, which prevents an in-depth understanding of SWCNT ensemble properties. In particular, electronic-type mixing (the simultaneous presence of semiconductor and metallic nanotubes) in SWCNT networks remains the single largest hurdle to developing a comprehensive view of ensemble nanotube electrical transport, a critical step toward their use in optoelectronics. Here, we systematically study temperature-dependent magnetoconductivity (MC) in networks of highly enriched semiconductor and metal SWCNT films. In the semiconductor-enriched network, we observe two-dimensional variable-range hopping conduction from 5 to 290 K. Low-temperature MC measurements reveal a large, negative MC from which we determine the wave-function localization length and Fermi energy density of states. In contrast, the metal-enriched film exhibits positive MC that increases with decreasing temperature, a behavior attributed to two-dimensional weak localization. Using this model, we determine the details of the carrier phase coherence and fit the temperature-dependent conductivity. These extensive measurements on type-enriched SWCNT networks provide insights that pave the way for the use of SWCNTs in solid-state devices.