T. E. Cowan

21.1k citations

235 papers · 12.0k · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.05%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Mechanics of Materials top 0.05%
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 188
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 160
Mechanics of Materials 127
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma 104
- Muon and positron interactions and applications 23

Co-authors: Richard A. Snavely (13 shared papers)Stephen P. Hatchett (14 shared papers)S. C. Wilks (12 shared papers)Deanna M. Pennington (11 shared papers)Alexander J. Mackinnon (10 shared papers)H. Rühl (21 shared papers)Michael H. Key (8 shared papers)M. Roth (19 shared papers)
Journals: Physics of Plasmas (27 papers)Physical Review Letters (23 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (10 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (9 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany France

In The Last Decade

T. E. Cowan

223 papers receiving 11.6k citations

T. E. Cowan's Hit Papers

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Isochoric Heating of Solid-Density Matter with an Ultrafast Proton Beam 2003 · 479 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2003 Physical Review Letters
2001 Physics of Plasmas
2001 Physical Review Letters
2000 Physical Review Letters
1999 Nature

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1	Energetic proton generation in ultra-intense laser–solid interactions Physics of Plasmas ·S. C. Wilks, A. B. Langdon, T. E. Cowan, M. Roth, Mike Sohan Singh, Stephen P. Hatchett, Michael H. Key, Deanna M. Pennington, Alexander J. Mackinnon, Richard A. Snavely Hit paper breakdown →	2001	1342
2	Intense High-Energy Proton Beams from Petawatt-Laser Irradiation of Solids Physical Review Letters ·Richard A. Snavely, M. H. Key, Stephen P. Hatchett, T. E. Cowan, M. Roth, T. W. Phillips, Mark A. Stoyer, E. A. Henry, T. C. Sangster, Mike Sohan Singh, S. C. Wilks, Alexander J. Mackinnon, A. A. Offenberger, Deanna M. Pennington, Kazuhito Yasuike, A. BRUCE LANGDON, Barbara F. Lasinski, J. Johnson, Michael Dean Perry, E. Michael Campbell Hit paper breakdown →	2000	1298
3	Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams Physical Review Letters ·M. Roth, T. E. Cowan, Michael H. Key, Stephen P. Hatchett, C. Brown, Walter F. Fountain, J. Johnson, Deanna M. Pennington, Richard A. Snavely, S. C. Wilks, Kazuhito Yasuike, H. Rühl, Francesco Pegoraro, S. V. Bulanov, E. Michael Campbell, Michael Dean Perry, H. T. Powell Hit paper breakdown →	2001	1039
4	Nuclear fusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters Nature ·(unknown), J. Zweiback, Victor P. Yanovsky, T. E. Cowan, Graeme C. Hays, K. B. Wharton Hit paper breakdown →	1999	654
5	Isochoric Heating of Solid-Density Matter with an Ultrafast Proton Beam Physical Review Letters ·P. K. Patel, Alexander J. Mackinnon, M. H. Key, T. E. Cowan, Mark Foord, M. Allen, D. W. Price, H. Rühl, Paul T. Springer, Richard B. Stephens Hit paper breakdown →	2003	479
6	MeV Ion Jets from Short-Pulse-Laser Interaction with Thin Foils Physical Review Letters ·Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, S. Karsch, Georg Pretzler, Dietrich Habs, Klaus J. Witte, William B. Guenther, M. Allen, A. Blažević, J. Fuchs, J. C. Gauthier, Matthias Geissel, P. Audebert, T. E. Cowan, M. Roth	2002	338
7	Observation of correlated narrow-peak structures in positron and electron spectra from superheavy collision systems Physical Review Letters ·T. E. Cowan, H. Backe, Κ. Bethge, H. Bokemeyer, Helmut Folger, J. S. Greenberg, K Sakaguchi, D. Schwalm, John E. Schweppe, Kurt Ernst Stiebing, P. Vincent	1986	282
8	Observation of a Peak Structure in Positron Spectra from U+Cm Collisions Physical Review Letters ·John E. Schweppe, A. Gruppe, Κ. Bethge, H. Bokemeyer, T. E. Cowan, Helmut Folger, J. S. Greenberg, H. Grein, S. Ito, Roland Schüle, D. Schwalm, Kurt Ernst Stiebing, Ν. Trautmann, Pascal Vincent, M. Waldschmidt	1983	261
9	Nuclear Fusion Driven by Coulomb Explosions of Large Deuterium Clusters Physical Review Letters ·J. Zweiback, Russell Smith, T. E. Cowan, Graeme C. Hays, K. B. Wharton, Victor P. Yanovsky, (unknown)	2000	250
10	Anomalous Positron Peaks from Supercritical Collision Systems Physical Review Letters ·T. E. Cowan, H. Backe, Marianne H. Begemann, Κ. Bethge, H. Bokemeyer, Helmut Folger, J. S. Greenberg, H. Grein, A. Gruppe, Yoshiaki Kido, M. Klüver, D. Schwalm, John E. Schweppe, Kurt Ernst Stiebing, Ν. Trautmann, P. Vincent	1985	236
11	High energy proton acceleration in interaction of short laser pulse with dense plasma target Physics of Plasmas ·Y. Sentoku, T. E. Cowan, Andreas J. Kemp, H. Rühl	2003	231
12	Dynamics of Electric Fields Driving the Laser Acceleration of Multi-MeV Protons Physical Review Letters ·L. Romagnani, J. Fuchs, M. Borghesi, P. Antici, P. Audebert, F. Ceccherini, T. E. Cowan, Thomas Grismayer, S. Kar, Andrea Macchi, P. Mora, Georg Pretzler, A. Schiavi, T. Toncian, O. Willi	2005	217
13	Photonuclear Fission from High Energy Electrons from Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions Physical Review Letters ·T. E. Cowan, A. Hunt, T. W. Phillips, S. C. Wilks, Michael Dean Perry, C. Brown, Walter F. Fountain, Stephen P. Hatchett, J. Johnson, M. H. Key, Thomas A. Parnell, Deanna M. Pennington, Richard A. Snavely, Y. Takahashi	2000	186
14	Energetic ions generated by laser pulses: A detailed study on target properties Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams ·M. Roth, A. Blažević, Matthias Geissel, T. Schlegel, T. E. Cowan, M. Allen, J. C. Gauthier, P. Audebert, J. Fuchs, Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, S. Karsch, Alexander Pukhov	2002	184
15	The scaling of proton energies in ultrashort pulse laser plasma acceleration New Journal of Physics ·Karl Zeil, Stephan Kraft, Stefan Bock, Michael Bußmann, T. E. Cowan, T. Kluge, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Tim Richter, Roland A. Sauerbrey, Ulrich Schramm	2010	161
16	The use of an electron beam ion trap in the study of highly charged ions Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·M. A. Levine, Roscoe E. Marrs, J. N. Bardsley, P. Beiersdörfer, Charles Lougheed Bennett, M.H. Chen, T. E. Cowan, Daniel D. Dietrich, J. Henderson, D. A. Knapp, Albert L. Osterheld, B. M. Penetrante, Marilyn B. Schneider, James H Scofield	1989	159
17	Laser light and hot electron micro focusing using a conical target Physics of Plasmas ·Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, H. Rühl, Yusuke Toyama, Ricardo Matsura Kodama, T. E. Cowan	2004	142
18	Spatial Uniformity of Laser-Accelerated Ultrahigh-Current MeV Electron Propagation in Metals and Insulators Physical Review Letters ·J. Fuchs, T. E. Cowan, P. Audebert, H. Rühl, L. Grémillet, Andreas J. Kemp, M. Allen, A. Blažević, J. C. Gauthier, Matthias Geissel, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, S. Karsch, P.B. Parks, M. Roth, Y. Sentoku, Richard B. Stephens, E. Michael Campbell	2003	138
19	Characterization of Fusion Burn Time in Exploding Deuterium Cluster Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·J. Zweiback, T. E. Cowan, Roland A. Smith, J. H. Hartley, Richard H. Howell, C. A. Steinke, Graeme C. Hays, K. B. Wharton, John K. Crane, (unknown)	2000	137
20	Increased laser-accelerated proton energies via direct laser-light-pressure acceleration of electrons in microcone targets Physics of Plasmas ·Ségolène Gaillard, T. Kluge, Kirk A. Flippo, Michael Bußmann, Brady B. Gall, Tom E. Lockard, Matthias Geissel, Dustin T. Offermann, Marius Sebastian Schollmeier, Y. Sentoku, T. E. Cowan	2011	131

About T. E. Cowan

T. E. Cowan is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, Radiation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 235 papers that have together received 12.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (160 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (104 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (63 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (49 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (30 papers), Muon and positron interactions and applications (23 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (22 papers) and Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (10.1k citations), Mechanics of Materials (6.6k citations), Geophysics (3.4k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (6.3k citations) and Radiation (1.5k citations). T. E. Cowan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Richard A. Snavely, Stephen P. Hatchett, S. C. Wilks, Deanna M. Pennington, Alexander J. Mackinnon, H. Rühl, Michael H. Key, M. Roth, Mike Sohan Singh and J. Zweiback. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Physical Review Letters, Review of Scientific Instruments, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment.

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