Derek Schaeffer

Derek Schaeffer

Princeton University

H-index: 18

North America-United States

About Derek Schaeffer

Derek Schaeffer, With an exceptional h-index of 18 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Princeton University, specializes in the field of Laboratory Astrophysics, HEDP, Laser-Plasmas, Collisionless Shocks, Thomson scattering.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

X-ray imaging and electron temperature evolution in laser-driven magnetic reconnection experiments at the National Ignition Facility

Kinetic simulations comparing quasi-parallel and quasi-perpendicular piston-driven collisionless shock dynamics in magnetized laboratory plasmas

Exploration of Early Universe Magnetogenesis via Biermann Battery with Laboratory Astrophysics and FLASH Simulations

Laboratory study of magnetic reconnection in lunar-relevant mini-magnetospheres

Reconstructing Plasma Velocity Distribution Functions using Stochastic Gradient Descent

Proton radiography of Nernst effect in magnetized underdense plasma

Estimation of electron temperature using gated X-ray pinhole images of magnetic reconnection experiments at the NIF

Extended Biermann-Battery Fields via Proton Radiography with X-ray Fiducials

Derek Schaeffer Information

University

Position

Associate Research Scholar

Citations(all)

1118

Citations(since 2020)

653

Cited By

687

hIndex(all)

18

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

30

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

University Profile Page

Princeton University

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Derek Schaeffer Skills & Research Interests

Laboratory Astrophysics

HEDP

Laser-Plasmas

Collisionless Shocks

Thomson scattering

Top articles of Derek Schaeffer

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

X-ray imaging and electron temperature evolution in laser-driven magnetic reconnection experiments at the National Ignition Facility

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07799

Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

Jacob M Molina

Derek B Schaeffer

Sophia Malko

Jesse Griff-McMahon

...

2024/4/11

Kinetic simulations comparing quasi-parallel and quasi-perpendicular piston-driven collisionless shock dynamics in magnetized laboratory plasmas

Physics of Plasmas

P Pongkitiwanichakul

DB Schaeffer

W Fox

D Ruffolo

J Donaghy

...

2024/1/1

Exploration of Early Universe Magnetogenesis via Biermann Battery with Laboratory Astrophysics and FLASH Simulations

American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts

Tristan Bachmann

Jessica Pilgram

Marissa Adams

Carmen Constantin

Peter Heuer

...

2024/2

Laboratory study of magnetic reconnection in lunar-relevant mini-magnetospheres

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05043

Lucas Rovige

Filipe D Cruz

Robert S Dorst

Jessica J Pilgram

Carmen G Constantin

...

2024/2/7

Reconstructing Plasma Velocity Distribution Functions using Stochastic Gradient Descent

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Vedang Bhelande

Derek Schaeffer

Mark Almanza

Paulo Alves

2023

Proton radiography of Nernst effect in magnetized underdense plasma

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Padrick Beggs

Jesse Griff-McMahon

Chris Walsh

William Fox

Derek Schaeffer

...

2023

Estimation of electron temperature using gated X-ray pinhole images of magnetic reconnection experiments at the NIF

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

Jacob Molina

Sophia Malko

Jesse Griff-McMahon

Michael Rosenberg

...

2023

Extended Biermann-Battery Fields via Proton Radiography with X-ray Fiducials

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Jesse Griff-McMahon

Sophia Malko

Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

Christopher Walsh

Gennady Fiksel

...

2023

Proton deflectometry analysis in magnetized plasmas: magnetic field reconstruction in one dimension

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16165

W Fox

G Fiksel

DB Schaeffer

2023/9/28

Investigation of Wave Structures in Laser-Driven Ion-Scale Magnetospheres on the Large Plasma Device

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Sophia D'Anna

Lucas Rovige

Derek Schaeffer

2023

Machine learning analysis of high-repetition rate 2-dimensional Thomson scattering spectra from laser-plasmas

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Sam Eisenbach

Derek Mariscal

Derek Schaeffer

Haiping Zhang

Jessica Pilgram

...

2023

Strong collisionless coupling between an unmagnetized driver plasma and a magnetized background plasma

Physics of Plasmas

F.D. Cruz

D.B. Schaeffer

F. Cruz

and L.O. Silva

2023/5

Next Generation Machine to Study Heliophysics in the Laboratory

Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

Seth Dorfman

Emily Lichko

Joseph Olson

James Juno

Evdokiya Kostadinova

...

2023/7

Ion Acceleration by Quasi-Parallel Magnetized Collisionless Shocks

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Derek Schaeffer

Peter Heuer

Victor Zhang

Margaux Francois

Gennady Fiksel

...

2023

Studying Magnetized Shocks of Varying Collisionality at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Peter Heuer

Fernando Garcia Rubio

Yu Zhang

Jonathan Peebles

Daniel Barnak

...

2023

Two-dimensional thomson scattering in laser-produced plasmas

Instruments

Haiping Zhang

Jessica J Pilgram

Carmen G Constantin

Lucas Rovige

Peter V Heuer

...

2023/9/6

Recovering non-Maxwellian particle velocity distribution functions from collective Thomson-scattered spectra

AIP Advances

Bryan C Foo

Derek B Schaeffer

Peter V Heuer

2023/11/1

Collective Thomson Scattering Feasibility Study for the LArge Plasma Device (LAPD)

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Yhoshua Wug

Derek Schaeffer

Troy Carter

2023

Study of magnetic reconnection in ion-scale magnetospheres on the Large Plasma Device

APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts

Lucas Rovige

Filipe Cruz

Robert Dorst

Jessica Pilgram

Carmen Constantin

...

2023

Enabling Discoveries in Heliospheric Science through Laboratory Plasma Experiments

Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

Emily Lichko

Douglass Endrizzi

James Juno

Joseph Olson

Seth Dorfman

...

2023/7

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