Patrick Mora
Patrick Mora (* 1952 ) is a French plasma physicist who studies laser- plasma interaction. He is the research director of the CNRS and professor at the École polytechnique in Paris , where he is the director of the Institute for Lasers and Plasma.
Life
Mora studied from 1971 to 1975 at the École normal supérieure . In 1975 he received his agrégation in physics and in 1980 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris XI (Orsay) (Génération de champs magnétique dans l'interaction non linéaire rayonnement-plasma, et expansion des plasmas créés par laser). From 1975 to 1982 he did research at the CEA in Saclay and from 1982 for the CNRS. Since 1989 he has also been teaching at the Ecole Polytechnique with a professorship from 2006. In 2001 he became director of the Center for Theoretical Physics and since 2009 director of the Institute for Lasers and Plasma.
Mora is a theorist. He developed a model of the interaction of laser light with plasma in connection with energy transport in plasma and plasma hydrodynamics, and with his colleague Jean-Francois Luciani a non-linear and non-local theory of heat transport in plasma via electrons, which was subsequently widely used. This had application to improved numerical codes in inertial fusion with lasers. With Tom Antonsen, he developed a model of the propagation of laser pulses in non-dense plasmas, which showed their tendency to self-focus and Raman instabilities. He developed a theory of the expansion of plasmas into the vacuum, which explains the flow dynamics and structure of the ion front. His theories find application in explaining ion and electron beam acceleration experiments.
In 2014 he received the Hannes Alfvén Prize, in 1997 he received the Paul Langevin Prize and in 2019 the Edward Teller Award .
Fonts
- Theoretical model of absorption of laser light by a plasma , Phys. Fluids 25, 1051 (1982).
- with JF Luciani, J. Virmont: Nonlocal heat transport due to steep temperature gradients , JF Luciani, P. Mora, J. Virmont, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1664 (1983) (and Phys. Fluids 28, 835 (1985) with JF Luciani, R. Pellat).
- with TM Antonsen Jr .: Self focusing and Raman scattering of laser pulses in tenuous plasmas , Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2204 (1992) (and Phys. Fluids B 5, 1440 (1993))
- with TM Antonsen Jr .: Kinetic modeling of intense, short laser pulses propagating in tenuous plasmas , Phys. Plasmas 4, 217 (1997).
- with B. Quesnel: Theory and simulation of the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with electrons in vacuum , Phys. Rev. E 58, 3719 (1998).
- Physics of relativistic laser plasmas , Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 43, 2001, Issue 12 A.
- Plasma expansion into a vacuum , Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185002 (2003).
- Thin-foil expansion into a vacuum , Phys. Rev. E 72, 056401 (2005).
- with T. Grismayer: Rarefaction Acceleration and Kinetic Effects in Thin-Foil Expansion into a Vacuum , Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145001 (2009).
- with A. Diaw: Rarefaction shock in plasma with a bi-Maxwellian electron distribution function , Phys. Rev. E 84, 036402 (2011).
Web links
- Homepage. Ecole Polytechnique(English, French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le prix Hannes Alfvén 2014 a été décerné à Patrick Mora. École Polytechnique, May 5, 2014, accessed April 20, 2019 (French).
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| SURNAME | Mora, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French plasma physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |