Laser-driven charged particle transport in warm dense matter and plasma

Abstract

And of course, I would like thank Jon Apiñaniz, my colleague at work and my friend, who become like a brother for me in the last years. Special thanks for his dedication to our common work, patience and for understanding me so well. Furthermore, I would like to thank Dimitri Batani, who was my supervisor during my internship at CELIA, and provided tremendous help for my research in fast electron transport and shock ignition experiments. I also want to thank Witold Cayzac for his huge contribution in the understanding proton stopping power physics presented in this thesis, Javier Honrubia for the help with the fast electron transport modelling, as well as for the support of this research line, and Frederic Perez for the help in the experimental campaign at LULI-ELFIE facility and for PIC simulations of the fast electron source. I also would like to acknowledge Anna Tauschwitz for performing the RALEF2D simulations. My special thanks are for Micha Ehret, who besides being an awesome friend, with whom you can go to the end of the world, is also a great scientist, who helped me a lot in the LULI-ELFIE experimental campaign. I would like to acknowledge my "proton stopping power rangers" team