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Smilei is an open-source code for plasma simulation, the result of a collaboration between physicists and high-performance computing experts. It can simulate relativistic interactions between lasers and plasma or astrophysical phenomena. The workshop from 9 to 11 March explored this vast field of applications.

At LULI, laser beams are amplified and used for nuclear fusion experiments, among other studies. On 18 August, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at...

An international consortium, including many researchers from CEA, CNRS, Inserm, École Polytechnique and the universities of Grenoble Alpes, Paris...

Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use...

Based on an idea given by Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the XCAN...

Sylvie Jacquemot from the Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (Luli)* located at École Polytechnique, has been elected as the new...

Radiowave and X-ray pictures of G296.5+10.0 supernova from SNRcat A supernova happens when a star runs out of fuel and dies, generating a huge...

Ion radiography of Weibel instability: protons accelerated by laser-plasma interaction in a first target (left) pass through a second target, itself...

Crédit : ESO/L. Calçada In 1987, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a supernova (SN1987A) explodes. Being very close to Earth, this supernova has been...