Students Research, Honors, Awards, & Graduation News

Current Research Group Members

Ernesto Barraza-Valdez

Publications:

B.S. Nicks, S. Hakimi, E. Barraza-Valdez, K.D. Chestnut, G.H. DeGrandchamp, K.R. Gage, D. B. Housley, G. Huxtable, G. Lawler, D.J. Lin, P. Manwani, E.C. Nelson, G.M. Player, M.W.L. Seggebruch, J. Sweeney, J.E. Tanner, K. Thompson, and T. Tajima, High-Density Dynamics of Laser Wakefield Acceleration From Gas Plasmas to Nanotubes, Photonics 8, 216 (2021).

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Gregory Huxtable

Publications:

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Gabriel Player

Publications:

G. Player, R. Clary, S. Dettrick, S. Korepanov, R. M. Magee, T. Tajima, and the TAE Team, A Novel Technique for In Situ Calibration of the C-2W Electromagnetic Neutral Particle Analyzer Utilizing Machine Learning, Rev. Sci. Inst. 92, 053542 (2021).

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Graduates

Yoonwoo Hwang
yoonwooh@uci.edu
Laser-Compton light source development, medical applications

Publications:

D. M. Farinella, C. K. Lauoon, X. M. Zhang, J. Koga, S. Taimourzadeh, Y. Hwang, K.Abazajian, N. Canac, T. Ebisuzaki, P. Taborek, and T. Tajima, High energy photon emission from wakefields, Phys. Plasmas 23, 073107 (2016).

Y. W. Hwang, T. Tajima, C. Barty, R. Marsh, and D. Gibson, Electron beam characterization through K-edge filtering of laser Compton-scattered X-rays, submitted to Phys. Rev. AB (2018).

Deano Michael-Angelo Farinella
dfarinel@uci.edu
Laser wakefield computational research, ultrafast laser pulse compression experimental research.

Publications:

X. M. Zhang, T. Tajima, D. Farinella, Y. M. Shin, G. Mourou, J. Wheeler, P. Taborek, P. S. Chen, and B. F. Shen, Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes, Phys. Rev. AB 19, 101004 (2016).

D. M. Farinella, J. Wheeler, A. Hussein, J. Nees, M. Stanfield N. Beier, G. Cojocaru, G. Ungureanu, M. Pittman, J. Demailly, E. Baynard, R. Fabbri, R. Secareanu, M. Masruri, A. Maksimchuk, K. Krushelnick, G. Mourou, T. Tajmia, and F. J. Dollar, Focusability of high intensity laser pulses after self-phase modulation in thin films, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36, 000A28 (2019).

D. M. Farinella, M. Stanfield, N. Beier, T. Nguyen, S. Hakimi, T. Tajima, F. Dollar, Demonstration of thin film compression for short-pulse X-ray generation, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A34, 1934015 (2019).

Deano Farinella and Family

Roger McWilliams, Franklin Dollar, Deano Farinella, Toshiki Tajima

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Scott Nicks [Graduate June 2021]
bnicks@uci.edu
Beam-driven instabilities in homogeneous plasma with applications for FRC, computational and theoretical

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Let Us Become Familiar With The UTIFS Simulation Codes-I

Laser Wakefield Application to Oncology

Direct observation of ion acceleration from a beam driven wave in a magnetic fusion experiment

High-Density Dynamics of Laser Wakefield Acceleration from Gas Plasmas to Nanotubes

Beam Driven Ion Cyclotron Modes in the Scrape off Layer of a Field-Reversed Configuration

Dr. Sahel Hakimi

Publications:

S. Hakimi, T. Nguyen, C.K. Lau, D. Farinella, H. Wang, P. Taborek, and T. Tajima, Wakefield simulation of solid state plasma, Phys. Plas. 25, 023112 (2018).

S. Hakimi, X. M. Zhang, C. Lau, P. Taborek, F. Dollar, T. Tajima, X-ray Laser Wakefield Acceleration in a Nanotube, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 34,1943011 (2019).

S. Hakimi, X. M. Zhang, C. Lau, P. Taborek, F. Dollar, T. Tajima, X-ray Laser Wakefield Acceleration in a Nanotube, in Beam Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures, Eds. S. Chattopadhay, G. Mourou, V. Shiltsev, T. Tajima (World Scientific, Singapore, 2020) p. 171.

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Joshua Tanner [Graduated June, 2021]

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Fusion Driven Transmutation of Transuranics in a Molten Salt

Carlton Sangmin Kim Graduation, June 2021

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Upon your graduation, I reminisced of our son’s arrival 40 some years ago (His age is called in Chinese as “Fuwaku” (“no more meandering”, or “不惑”. These chines characters are recognizable in Korea as well. Fuwaku was originally called by Confucious. A Waka has a syllabus structure is 5-7-5-7-7):

         “Sending out students
                     Under purple flower way
                                of jacaranda
                     Reverberating our son’s
                               Arrival four decades back.”

Toshi Tajima (6/26/21)

Its original was:

「送り出す
　　　　　　花道敷きて
　　　　　　　　　ジャカランダ
　　　　　　思ひ掻き立つ　　
　　　　　　　　　子の到来時」
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　俊樹　（６・２６・２１）

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Yoonwoo Hwang Thesis Defense: August 24, 2018