Ultrafast laser matter interactions: modeling approaches, challenges, and prospects

G Miloshevsky - Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The irradiation of the target surface by an ultrafast femtosecond (fs) laser pulse produces the
extreme non-equilibrium states of matter and subsequent phase transformations …

Laser wakefield and direct laser acceleration of electron by chirped laser pulses

HS Ghotra - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
Chirped laser pulses are investigated theoretically for laser wakefield (LW) and direct laser
(DL) acceleration of electrons in the plasma-bubble regime. Chirping of laser pulse with a …

Creation and direct laser acceleration of positrons in a single stage

B Martinez, B Barbosa, M Vranic - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2023 - APS
Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

Perspectives on relativistic electron–positron pair plasma experiments of astrophysical relevance using high-power lasers

H Chen, F Fiuza - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The study of relativistic electron–positron pair plasmas is both of fundamental physics
interest and important to understand the processes that shape the magnetic field dynamics …

Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches

R Babjak, L Willingale, A Arefiev, M Vranic - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide
hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available …

Retrieving transient magnetic fields of ultrarelativistic laser plasma via ejected electron polarization

Z Gong, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Interaction of an ultrastrong short laser pulse with nonprepolarized near-critical density
plasma is investigated in an ultrarelativistic regime, with an emphasis on the radiative spin …

Laser wakefield effect: a comparative study of Gaussian and Sinh-Gaussian pulse characteristics

V Sharma, N Kant, V Thakur - Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2024 - Springer
The laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a highly significant phenomenon within the
realm of high-energy physics and the study of interactions between lasers and plasmas. This …

Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process into a plasma channel

D Maslarova, B Martinez, M Vranic - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-
TeV electron–positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for …

Energy efficient electron acceleration using optimized Sinh-Gaussian laser beam in vacuum

V Sharma, R Kaur, V Thakur - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
Particle accelerators play a crucial role in modern scientific research, facilitating progress in
diverse areas such as fundamental physics and medical treatments. In this study, an intense …

Demonstration of efficient relativistic electron acceleration by surface plasmonics with sequential target processing using high repetition lasers

Y Arikawa, A Morace, Y Abe, N Iwata, Y Sentoku… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
For high repetition ultrahigh-intensity laser system, automatic alignment of structured target
is key to achieving consistent particle acceleration and plasma heating. In this work, we …