W. B. Mori

20.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
342 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

W. B. Mori is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, W. B. Mori has authored 342 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 313 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 175 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 141 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in W. B. Mori's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (295 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (141 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (120 papers). W. B. Mori is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (295 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (141 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (120 papers). W. B. Mori collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Portugal. W. B. Mori's co-authors include T. Katsouleas, Ricardo Fonseca, C. Joshi, F. S. Tsung, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, L. O. Silva, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas and Chengkun Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

W. B. Mori

316 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions

2004 1.4k citations A. G. R. Thomas, W. B. Mori et al. profile →
Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator

2007 444 citations Mark Hogan, W. Lu et al. profile →
Injection and Trapping of Tunnel-Ionized Electrons into Laser-Produced Wakes

2010 389 citations K. A. Marsh, S. F. Martins et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Collisionless shocks in laser-produced plasma generate monoenergetic high-energy proton beams

2011 299 citations Ricardo Fonseca, L. O. Silva et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
W. B. Mori	11.8k	7.5k	6.3k	2.7k	2.0k	342	13.0k
Wim Leemans	11.9k 1.0×	8.1k 1.1×	6.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.5×	2.0k 1.0×	409	13.9k
C. B. Schroeder	10.0k 0.8×	6.2k 0.8×	5.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	341	11.1k
E. Esarey	15.1k 1.3×	11.4k 1.5×	8.7k 1.4×	3.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	281	16.5k
P. Sprangle	9.4k 0.8×	11.1k 1.5×	5.6k 0.9×	4.3k 1.6×	784 0.4×	347	14.0k
V. Malka	12.2k 1.0×	7.9k 1.1×	7.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.4×	284	13.6k
A. Pukhov	18.0k 1.5×	9.7k 1.3×	7.7k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	372	19.3k
K. Krushelnick	11.9k 1.0×	7.7k 1.0×	7.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	3.3k 1.7×	268	13.1k
J. M. Dawson	9.2k 0.8×	5.8k 0.8×	3.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	175	12.4k
Z. M. Sheng	7.9k 0.7×	7.7k 1.0×	5.1k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	571	11.0k
S. C. Wilks	12.1k 1.0×	7.8k 1.0×	7.8k 1.2×	888 0.3×	4.2k 2.1×	171	13.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Miller, Kyle G., et al.. (2025). Photon acceleration of high-intensity vector vortex beams into the extreme ultraviolet. Communications Physics. 8(1).

Miller, Kyle G., et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal control of high-intensity laser pulses with a plasma lens. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

Xu, Xinlu, F. S. Tsung, Zhen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Attosecond x-ray free-electron lasers utilizing an optical undulator in a self-selection regime. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 27(1). 6 indexed citations

Miller, Kyle G., D. Rusby, A. Kemp, S. C. Wilks, & W. B. Mori. (2023). Maximizing MeV x-ray dose in relativistic laser-solid interactions. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Wu, Yipeng, Chaojie Zhang, Zan Nie, et al.. (2023). Efficient generation of tunable magnetic and optical vortices using plasmas. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 5 indexed citations

Bailly-Grandvaux, M., B. J. Winjum, M. J.-E. Manuel, et al.. (2023). Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities. Journal of Plasma Physics. 89(2). 4 indexed citations

Miller, Kyle G., J. P. Palastro, Jessica Shaw, et al.. (2023). Accurate simulation of direct laser acceleration in a laser wakefield accelerator. Physics of Plasmas. 30(7). 3 indexed citations

Gao, Jie, Qianqian Su, Dazhang Li, et al.. (2022). The optimal beam-loading in two-bunch nonlinear plasma wakefield accelerators. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 64(6). 65007–65007.

Nie, Zan, Fei Li, Felipe Morales, et al.. (2022). Highly spin-polarized multi-GeV electron beams generated by single-species plasma photocathodes. Physical Review Research. 4(3). 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, Yipeng Wu, K. A. Marsh, et al.. (2022). Electron Weibel instability induced magnetic fields in optical-field ionized plasmas. Physics of Plasmas. 29(6). 4 indexed citations

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Hua, Jianfei, et al.. (2022). High efficiency uniform positron beam loading in a hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 25(9). 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, Yipeng Wu, K. A. Marsh, et al.. (2022). Mapping the self-generated magnetic fields due to thermal Weibel instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(50). e2211713119–e2211713119. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Xinlu, David Cesar, S. Corde, et al.. (2021). Generation of Terawatt Attosecond Pulses from Relativistic Transition Radiation. Physical Review Letters. 126(9). 94801–94801. 7 indexed citations

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Higginson, A., S. Zhang, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, et al.. (2021). Electron acceleration at oblique angles via stimulated Raman scattering at laser irradiance >1016Wcm−2μm2. Physical review. E. 103(3). 33203–33203. 2 indexed citations

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An, Weiming, Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, et al.. (2020). Emittance preservation through density ramp matching sections in a plasma wakefield accelerator. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 23(1). 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, Jianfei Hua, Yipeng Wu, et al.. (2020). Measurements of the Growth and Saturation of Electron Weibel Instability in Optical-Field Ionized Plasmas. Physical Review Letters. 125(25). 255001–255001. 19 indexed citations

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Nie, Zan, Chih‐Hao Pai, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2020). Photon deceleration in plasma wakes generates single-cycle relativistic tunable infrared pulses. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2787–2787. 27 indexed citations

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Wan, Y., I. A. Andriyash, Chih‐Hao Pai, et al.. (2020). Ion acceleration with an ultra-intense two-frequency laser tweezer. New Journal of Physics. 22(5). 52002–52002. 4 indexed citations

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Tsung, F. S., et al.. (2019). Petascale particle-in-cell simulations of kinetic effects in inertial fusion energy plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(4). 44007–44007. 8 indexed citations

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Martins, S. F., et al.. (2010). Boosted frame PIC simulations of LWFA: towards the energy frontier. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 1 indexed citations

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