Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields

A Gonoskov, TG Blackburn, M Marklund… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

[HTML][HTML] EuPRAXIA conceptual design report

RW Assmann, MK Weikum, T Akhter, D Alesini… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme

A Higginson, RJ Gray, M King, RJ Dance… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the
development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and …

Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam

JM Cole, KT Behm, E Gerstmayr, TG Blackburn… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily
influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration …

Experimental signatures of the quantum nature of radiation reaction in the field of an ultraintense laser

K Poder, M Tamburini, G Sarri, A Di Piazza, S Kuschel… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of
arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics …

The extreme light infrastructure—nuclear physics (ELI-NP) facility: new horizons in physics with 10 PW ultra-intense lasers and 20 MeV brilliant gamma beams

S Gales, KA Tanaka, DL Balabanski… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected in
2006 a proposal based on ultra-intense laser fields with intensities reaching up to 10 22–10 …

Undepleted direct laser acceleration

I Cohen, T Meir, K Tangtartharakul, L Perelmutter… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Intense lasers enable generating high-energy particle beams in university-scale
laboratories. With the direct laser acceleration (DLA) method, the leading part of the laser …

Maximum Proton Energy above 85 MeV from the Relativistic Interaction of Laser Pulses with Micrometer Thick Targets

F Wagner, O Deppert, C Brabetz, P Fiala… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We present a study of laser-driven ion acceleration with micrometer and submicrometer thick
plastic targets. Using laser pulses with high temporal contrast and an intensity of the order of …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program

KA Tanaka, KM Spohr, DL Balabanski… - Matter and Radiation …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The emergence of a new era reaching beyond current state-of-the-art ultrashort and
ultraintense laser technology has been enabled by the approval of around€ 850 million …

Pushing the frontier in the design of laser-based electron accelerators with groundbreaking mesh-refined particle-in-cell simulations on exascale-class …

L Fedeli, A Huebl, F Boillod-Cerneux… - … conference for high …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
(150 word max) We present a first-of-kind mesh-refined (MR) massively parallel Particle-In-
Cell (PIC) code for kinetic plasma simulations optimized on the Frontier, Fugaku, Summit …