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Publications of Michael Donovan
Authors associated with the Cyclotron Institute are , and those associated with Center of Excellence in Nuclear Training And University-based Research (CENTAUR) have a * next to their name.
2018
Neutron enhancement from laser interaction with a critical fluid, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Physics Letters A 382, 94--98 (2018) | pub id: 785 [DOI] [URL] |
2017
Range of plasma ions in cold cluster gases near the critical point, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Physics Letters A 381, 1682 - 1686 (2017) | pub id: 643 [DOI] [URL] |
2016
Model-independent determination of the astrophysical ${S}$ factor in laser-induced fusion plasmas, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Phys. Rev. C 93, 045808 (2016) | pub id: 477 [DOI] [URL] |
Thermal and log-normal distributions of plasma in laser driven Coulomb explosions of deuterium clusters, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , International Journal of Modern Physics E 25, 1650063 (2016) | pub id: 590 [DOI] [URL] |
2014
A laser application to nuclear astrophysics, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , in: Proceedings of the 7th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, AIP Conference Proceedings 1595, Sicily, Italy, pages 168-172, 2014 | pub id: 572 [DOI] [URL] |
Characterization of deuterium clusters mixed with helium gas for an application in beam-target-fusion experiments, , , , , , , , , , , *, , , and , Phys. Rev. E 90, 063109 (2014) | pub id: 113 [DOI] [URL] |
2013
Diagnostics improvement in the ABC facility and preliminary tests on laser interaction with light-atom clusters and $p$ + $^{11}\mathrm{B}$ targets, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 720, 149 - 152 (2013) | pub id: 480 [DOI] [URL] |
Experimental study of fusion neutron and proton yields produced by petawatt-laser-irradiated D${}_{2}$-${}^{3}$He or CD${}_{4}$-${}^{3}$He clustering gases, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Phys. Rev. E 88, 033108 (2013) | pub id: 373 [DOI] [URL] |
Measurement of the Plasma Astrophysical ${S}$ Factor for the $^{3}\mathrm{He}(d,p)^{4}\mathrm{He}$ Reaction in Exploding Molecular Clusters, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082502 (2013) | pub id: 375 [DOI] [URL] |
Study of the yield of ${D}$-${D}$, ${D}$-$^3\mathrm{He}$ fusion reactions produced by the interaction of intense ultrafast laser pulses with molecular clusters, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , in: 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), Journal of Physics: Conference Series 420, San Antonio, Texas, pages 012060, 2013 | pub id: 573 [DOI] [URL] |
Temperature Measurements of Fusion Plasmas Produced by Petawatt-Laser-Irradiated $\mathrm{D}_2$-$^3\mathrm{He}$ or $\mathrm{CD}_4$-$^{3}\mathrm{He}$ Clustering Gases, , , *, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 055002 (2013) | pub id: 374 [DOI] [URL] |
2012
Temperature measurements of cluster fusion plasmas using {D}-$^{3}\mathrm{He}$ or {CD}$_4$-$^{3}\mathrm{He}$ mixtures on the Texas Petawatt, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , in: 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2012, 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2012, pages 1, 2012 | pub id: 441 [URL] |