Applications of Spectroscopy in Astronomy Laboratory Based Experiments of Astrophysical Relevance
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 3609
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Astrophysical studies progress via a huge variety of experiments and theoretical studies in nuclear physics. New possibilities are brought to the field by the emergence of high power laser facilities in the sub-PW to PW regimes. Those all-optical accelerator systems allow the production of intense gamma-ray bursts, as well as electron, and ion acceleration simultaneously. Thus they can provide hot plasma conditions for extremely short times in laboratory experiments. These conditions resemble, to a certain degree, astrophysical scenarios and can be exploited for earth-bound investigations. As the field is relatively new, we are dedicating this Special Issue to the collection and discourse of relevant studies. This includes advanced experimental strategies, their theoretical underpinning with large-scale simulations, and the development of detector concepts that can withstand the associated experimental conditions which are inherently interwoven with the high-intensity nature of the short laser pulses. Knowing that experimental data in the field is still sparse we are also happy to include cutting-edge project plans and technical design report (TDR)-like submissions.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Michael Spohr
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nuclear astrophysics
- Laser-plasma
- Laser nuclear physics
- Nuclear and Plasma Simulation
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