GEnerating extreme NEutrons for achieving controlled r-process nucleosyntheSIS

Project Information

GENESIS

Grant agreement ID: 787539

DOI

10.3030/787539

Project closed

EC signature date 26 July 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 494 784,00

EU contribution

€ 3 494 784,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Particle energization in colliding subcritical collisionless shocks investigated in the laboratory

Author(s): A. Fazzini, W. Yao, K. Burdonov, J. Béard, S. N. Chen, A. Ciardi, E. d’Humières, R. Diab, E. D. Filippov, S. Kisyov, V. Lelasseux, M. Miceli, Q. Moreno, S. Orlando, S. Pikuz, X. Ribeyre, M. Starodubtsev, R. Zemskov, J. Fuchs
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 665, 2022, Page(s) A87, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243277

A comprehensive characterization of the neutron fields produced by the Apollon petawatt laser

Author(s): R. Lelièvre, W. Yao, T. Waltenspiel, I. Cohen, V. Anthonippillai, P. Antici, A. Beck, E. Cohen, D. Michaeli, I. Pomerantz, D. C. Gautier, F. Trompier, Q. Ducasse, P. Koseoglou, P. -A. Soderstrom, F. Mathieu, A. Allaoua, Julien Fuchs
Published in: The European Physical Journal Plus, Issue 139, 2024, ISSN 2190-5444
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05679-x

X-ray spectroscopy evidence for plasma shell formation in experiments modeling accretion columns in young stars

Author(s): E. D. Filippov, I. Yu. Skobelev, G. Revet, S. N. Chen, B. Khiar, A. Ciardi, D. Khaghani, D. P. Higginson, S. A. Pikuz, J. Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 4/6, 2019, Page(s) 064402, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5124350

Global characterization of a laser-generated neutron source

Author(s): D.P. Higginson, R. Lelièvre, L. Vassura, M.M. Gugiu, M. Borghesi, L.A. Bernstein, D. L. Bleuel, B. L. Goldblum, A. Green, F. Hannachi, S. Kar, S. Kisyov, L. Quentin, M. Schroer, M. Tarisien, O. Willi, P. Antici, F. Negoita, A. Allaoua, J. Fuchs
Published in: Journal of Plasma Physics, Issue 90, 2024, ISSN 0022-3778
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377824000618

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

Author(s): Vojtěch Horný, Sophia N. Chen, Xavier Davoine, Vincent Lelasseux, Laurent Gremillet, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24155-z

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

Author(s): K. Burdonov, R. Bonito, T. Giannini, N. Aidakina, C. Argiroffi, J. Béard, S. N. Chen, A. Ciardi, V. Ginzburg, K. Gubskiy, V. Gundorin, M. Gushchin, A. Kochetkov, S. Korobkov, A. Kuzmin, A. Kuznetsov, S. Pikuz, G. Revet, S. Ryazantsev, A. Shaykin, I. Shaykin, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, A. Strikovskiy, W. Yao, I. Yakovlev, R. Zemskov, I. Zudin, E. Khazanov, S. Orlando, J. Fuchs
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 648, 2021, Page(s) A81, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040036

Characterization and performance of the Apollon short-focal-area facility following its commissioning at 1 PW level

Author(s): K. Burdonov, A. Fazzini, V. Lelasseux, J. Albrecht, P. Antici, Y. Ayoul, A. Beluze, D. Cavanna, T. Ceccotti, M. Chabanis, A. Chaleil, S. N. Chen, Z. Chen, F. Consoli, M. Cuciuc, X. Davoine, J. P. Delaneau, E. d’Humières, J.-L. Dubois, C. Evrard, E. Filippov, A. Freneaux, P. Forestier-Colleoni, L. Gremillet, V. Horny, L. Lancia, L. Lecherbourg, N. Lebas, A. Leblanc, W. Ma, L. Martin, F. Negoita,
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0065138

Absolute calibration up to 20 MeV of an online readout CMOS system suitable to detect high-power lasers accelerated protons

Author(s): K. Burdonov, R. Lelièvre, P. Forestier-Colleoni, T. Ceccotti, M. Cuciuc, L. Lancia, W. Yao, J. Fuchs
Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments, Issue 94, 2023, ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0150373

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

Author(s): V. Lelasseux, P.-A. Söderström, S. Aogaki, K. Burdonov, M. Cerchez, S. N. Chen, S. Dorard, A. Fazzini, M. Gugiu, S. Pikuz, F. Rotaru, O. Willi, F. Negoita, J. Fuchs
Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments, Issue 92, 2023, ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0057828

High repetition-rate 0.5 Hz broadband neutron source driven by the Advanced Laser Light Source

Author(s): R. Lelièvre, E. Catrix, S. Vallières, S. Fourmaux, A. Allaoua, V. Anthonippillai, P. Antici, Q. Ducasse, J. Fuchs
Published in: Physics of Plasmas, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0218582

Laboratory disruption of scaled astrophysical outflows by a misaligned magnetic field

Author(s): G. Revet, B. Khiar, E. Filippov, C. Argiroffi, J. Béard, R. Bonito, M. Cerchez, S. N. Chen, T. Gangolf, D. P. Higginson, A. Mignone, B. Olmi, M. Ouillé, S. N. Ryazantsev, I. Yu. Skobelev, M. I. Safronova, M. Starodubtsev, T. Vinci, O. Willi, S. Pikuz, S. Orlando, A. Ciardi, J. Fuchs
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20917-x

Focussing Protons from a Kilojoule Laser for Intense Beam Heating using Proximal Target Structures

Author(s): C. McGuffey, J. Kim, M. S. Wei, P. M. Nilson, S. N. Chen, J. Fuchs, P. Fitzsimmons, M. E. Foord, D. Mariscal, H. S. McLean, P. K. Patel, R. B. Stephens, F. N. Beg
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65554-4

Saturation of the compression of two interacting magnetized plasma toroids evidenced in the laboratory

Author(s): A. Sladkov, C. Fegan, W. Yao, A. F. A. Bott, S. N. Chen, H. Ahmed, E. D. Filippov, R. Lelièvre, P. Martin, A. McIlvenny, T. Waltenspiel, P. Antici, M. Borghesi, S. Pikuz, A. Ciardi, E. d’Humières, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, J. Fuchs
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53938-3

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

Author(s): V. Lelasseux, J. Fuchs
Published in: Journal of Instrumentation, Issue 15/04, 2020, Page(s) P04002-P04002, ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/04/p04002

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

Author(s): 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, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 6101, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/app14146101

Detailed characterization of a laboratory magnetized supercritical collisionless shock and of the associated proton energization

Author(s): W. Yao, A. Fazzini, S. N. Chen, K. Burdonov, P. Antici, J. Béard, S. Bolaños, A. Ciardi, R. Diab, E. D. Filippov, S. Kisyov, V. Lelasseux, M. Miceli, Q. Moreno, V. Nastasa, S. Orlando, S. Pikuz, D. C. Popescu, G. Revet, X. Ribeyre, E. d’Humières, J. Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0055071

Highly-collimated, high-charge and broadband MeV electron beams produced by magnetizing solids irradiated by high-intensity lasers

Author(s): S. Bolaños, J. Béard, G. Revet, S. N. Chen, S. Pikuz, E. Filippov, M. Safronova, M. Cerchez, O. Willi, M. Starodubtsev, J. Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 4/4, 2019, Page(s) 044401, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5082330

Spectral broadening for multi-Joule pulse compression in the APOLLON Long Focal Area facility

Author(s): P.-G. Bleotu, J. Wheeler, D. Papadopoulos, M. Chabanis, J. Prudent, M. Frotin, L. Martin, N. Lebas, A. Freneaux, A. Beluze, F. Mathieu, P. Audebert, D. Ursescu, J. Fuchs, G. Mourou
Published in: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2095-4719
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2021.61

Characterization and performance of the Apollon main short-pulse laser beam following its commissioning at 2 PW level

Author(s): Weipeng Yao, Ronan Lelièvre, Itamar Cohen, Tessa Waltenspiel, Amokrane Allaoua, Patrizio Antici, Yohann Ayoul, Arie Beck, Audrey Beluze, Christophe Blancard, Daniel Cavanna, Mélanie Chabanis, Sophia N. Chen, Erez Cohen, Philippe Cossé, Quentin Ducasse, Mathieu Dumergue, Fouad El Hai, Christophe Evrard, Evgeny Filippov, Antoine Freneaux, Donald Cort Gautier, Fabrice Gobert, Franck Goupille, Mick
Published in: Physics of Plasmas, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0252874

Numerical investigation of spallation neutrons generated from petawatt-scale laser-driven proton beams

Author(s): B. Martinez, S. N. Chen, S. Bolaños, N. Blanchot, G. Boutoux, W. Cayzac, C. Courtois, X. Davoine, A. Duval, V. Horny, I. Lantuejoul, L. Le Deroff, P. E. Masson-Laborde, G. Sary, B. Vauzour, R. Smets, L. Gremillet, J. Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0060582

Enhancement of the Nonresonant Streaming Instability by Particle Collisions

Author(s): A. Marret, A. Ciardi, R. Smets, J. Fuchs, L. Nicolas
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 128, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.115101

Laboratory investigation of particle acceleration and magnetic field compression in collisionless colliding fast plasma flows

Author(s): D. P. Higginson, Ph. Korneev, C. Ruyer, R. Riquier, Q. Moreno, J. Béard, S. N. Chen, A. Grassi, M. Grech, L. Gremillet, H. Pépin, F. Perez, S. Pikuz, B. Pollock, C. Riconda, R. Shepherd, M. Starodubtsev, V. Tikhonchuk, T. Vinci, E. d’Humières, J. Fuchs
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 2/1, 2019, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-019-0160-6

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

Author(s): Weipeng Yao, Julien Capitaine, Benjamin Khiar, Tommaso Vinci, Konstantin Burdonov, Jérôme Béard, Julien Fuchs, Andrea Ciardi
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0058306

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

Author(s): K. Burdonov, W. Yao, A. Sladkov, R. Bonito, S.N. Chen, A. Ciardi, A. Korzhimanov, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, R. Zemskov, S. Orlando, M. Romanova, J. Fuchs
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 657, 2022, Page(s) A112, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140997

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

Author(s): 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, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0184919

Quantitative feasibility study of sequential neutron captures using intense lasers

Author(s): Vojtěch Horný, Sophia N. Chen, Xavier Davoine, Laurent Gremillet, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Physical Review C, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.109.025802

Laser experiment for the study of accretion dynamics of Young Stellar Objects: Design and scaling

Author(s): G. Revet, B. Khiar, J. Béard, R. Bonito, S. Orlando, M.V. Starodubtsev, A. Ciardi, J. Fuchs
Published in: High Energy Density Physics, Issue 33, 2022, Page(s) 100711, ISSN 1574-1818
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100711

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

Author(s): A Marret, A Ciardi, R Smets, J Fuchs
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 500, 2020, Page(s) 2302-2315, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3465

Laboratory evidence of magnetic reconnection hampered in obliquely interacting flux tubes

Author(s): 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, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33813-9

Extreme brightness laser-based neutron pulses as a pathway for investigating nucleosynthesis in the laboratory

Author(s): S. N. Chen, F. Negoita, K. Spohr, E. d’Humières, I. Pomerantz, J. Fuchs
Published in: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Issue 4/5, 2019, Page(s) 054402, ISSN 2468-2047
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5081666

Laboratory evidence for proton energization by collisionless shock surfing

Author(s): W. Yao, A. Fazzini, S. N. Chen, K. Burdonov, P. Antici, J. Béard, S. Bolaños, A. Ciardi, R. Diab, E. D. Filippov, S. Kisyov, V. Lelasseux, M. Miceli, Q. Moreno, V. Nastasa, S. Orlando, S. Pikuz, D. C. Popescu, G. Revet, X. Ribeyre, E. d’Humières, J. Fuchs
Published in: Nature Physics, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 1177-1182, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01325-w

Investigating particle acceleration dynamics in interpenetrating magnetized collisionless super-critical shocks

Author(s): W. Yao, A. Fazzini, S.N. Chen, K. Burdonov, J. Béard, M. Borghesi, A. Ciardi, M. Miceli, S. Orlando, X. Ribeyre, E. d'Humières, J. Fuchs
Published in: Journal of Plasma Physics, Issue 89, 2023, ISSN 0022-3778
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s002237782300003x

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

Author(s): K. Burdonov, G. Revet, R. Bonito, C. Argiroffi, J. Béard, S. Bolanõs, M. Cerchez, S. N. Chen, A. Ciardi, G. Espinosa, E. Filippov, S. Pikuz, R. Rodriguez, M. Šmíd, M. Starodubtsev, O. Willi, S. Orlando, J. Fuchs
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 642, 2020, Page(s) A38, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038189

Laser-Produced Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Plasma Slabs in a 20 T Magnetic Field

Author(s): B. Khiar, G. Revet, A. Ciardi, K. Burdonov, E. Filippov, J. Béard, M. Cerchez, S. N. Chen, T. Gangolf, S. S. Makarov, M. Ouillé, M. Safronova, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, O. Willi, S. Pikuz, J. Fuchs
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 123/20, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.205001

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

Author(s): 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, Julien Fuchs
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87651-8

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

Author(s): C. Ruyer, S. Bolaños, B. Albertazzi, S. N. Chen, P. Antici, J. Böker, V. Dervieux, L. Lancia, M. Nakatsutsumi, L. Romagnani, R. Shepherd, M. Swantusch, M. Borghesi, O. Willi, H. Pépin, M. Starodubtsev, M. Grech, C. Riconda, L. Gremillet, J. Fuchs
Published in: Nature Physics, Issue 16/9, 2020, Page(s) 983-988, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0913-x