Research work of Prof. Chiu in Laser-plasma physics

 

Affiliation and Collaborations:

·       Institute for Fusion Study: Collaborating Scientist

·       FOCUS: Faculty/Scientist. PI of seed funding program of NSF-FOCUS, 2003.

·       Collaborators: Professors Toshi Tajima, Michael Downer, Wendell Horton and Dr. Boris Breizman of University of Texas at Austin and Professor Yukiharu Ohsawa of Nagoya University of Japan

·       Dissertation student: Mykhailo Fomytskyi (Dr. Boris Breizman was MF's co-supervisor. Graduated in Summer 2004)

 

Selected publications in laser-plasma physics:

·       C. CHIU, S. Cheshkov and T. Tajima, “Accelerator Physics Issues of a 5 TeV Wakefield Collider”, Beam Dynamics News Letter 21, 110 (2000).

·       C. CHIU, S. Cheshkov and T. Tajima, “High energy laser-wakefield collider with synchronous acceleration”,  Phys. Rev. Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams, 3, 101301 (2000).

·       B. Hu, W. Horton, C. CHIU. and T. Petrosky, "Coulomb Scattering in a Strong Magnetic Field", Phys. Plasmas 9, 1116 (2002).

·       H. Horton and C. CHIU, "Laser Z-pinch dipole-target experiments to simulate space physics acceleration processes", Phys. Plasmas 11, 1645 (2004).

·       M. Fomyts'kyi, C. CHIU, M. C. Downer, F. Grigsby, "Controlled plasma wave generation and particle acceleration through seeding of the forward Raman scattering instability," Physics of Plasmas 12, 1 (2005)

·       M. Fomyts’kyi, B. N. Breizman, A. V. Arefiev, C. CHIU, “Harmonic generation in clusters,” Phys. Plasmas 11, 3349 (2004).

·       C. CHIU, M. Fomytskyi, F.  Grigsby, R. M. Raischel, M. C. Downer and Tajima T, "Laser electron accelerators for radiation medicine:  a feasibility study," Med. Phys. 31, 2042 (2004). Selected for the July 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Utrafast Science.

·       K. K. Kainz, K. R. Hogstrom, J. A. Antolak, P. R. Almond, C. D. Bloch, C. CHIU, M. Fomyts'kyi, F. Raischel, M C Downer, T. Tajima, "Dose properties of a laser accelerated electron beam and prospects for clinical application,"  Med. Phys. 31, 2053 (2004). Recipient of the AAPM's Farrington Daniels Award as one of the top papers published in that journal during 2004, presented at the Americal Association of Physicists in Medicine Meeting, July 25, 2005.

·       W. Horton, C. Chiu and T. Ditmire, "Laboratory Simulation of Bow Shocks and Magnetospheres", Proceedings of HEDLA Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2004; published in Astrophysics and Space Science, 298, 395 (2005).

·       W. Horton, C. Chiu, T. Ditmire, P. Valanju, R. Presura, T. Cowan, V. Ivanov, N. Le Galloudec, "Laboratory Simulation of Magnetospheric Plasma Shocks and Magnetospheres", Proceedings of COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, July, 2004; accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, Special Issue.  

·       M. Fomyts'kyi, C. CHIU, M. C. Downer, F. Grigsby, "LWFA with Low Energy Raman Seeded Pulses," Proceedings of Advanced Accelerator Concept 2004, Stony Brook, July 2004.

·       Charles Chiu, Wendell Horton and Yukiharu Ohsawa, Large acceleration of electrons by the microstructure of quasi-normal shocks, 2005 (unpublished)