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HEDP Workshop Summary: High-Intensity Laser Plasma (HILP) group

Geissel, Matthias G.; Geddes, Cameron; Willingale, Louise; Winjum, Benjamin

Advances in HEDP research and limitations in currently established theories and models challenge us to better understand how high-intensity (>1014 W/cm2) laser light couples to plasmas. Considering both energy transfer processes and the resulting particle-beam and radiation generation, we find one overarching question: How do we understand, predict, and control laser-plasma interactions and laser-driven particle beams?