[HTML][HTML] Advances in QED with intense background fields

A Fedotov, A Ilderton, F Karbstein, B King, D Seipt… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment

H Abramowicz, U Acosta, M Altarelli… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an
experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron …

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 …

Extended particle-in-cell schemes for physics in ultrastrong laser fields: Review and developments

A Gonoskov, S Bastrakov, E Efimenko, A Ilderton… - Physical review E, 2015 - APS
We review common extensions of particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes which account for strong
field phenomena in laser-plasma interactions. After describing the physical processes of …

Radiation reaction in electron–beam interactions with high-intensity lasers

TG Blackburn - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2020 - Springer
Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the
conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil …

Ultrarelativistic electron-beam polarization in single-shot interaction with an ultraintense laser pulse

YF Li, R Shaisultanov, KZ Hatsagortsyan, F Wan… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Spin polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense
laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We develop a Monte …

Implementing nonlinear Compton scattering beyond the local-constant-field approximation

A Di Piazza, M Tamburini, S Meuren, CH Keitel - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
In the calculation of probabilities of physical processes occurring in a background classical
field, the local-constant-field approximation (LCFA) relies on the possibility of neglecting the …

Extended locally constant field approximation for nonlinear Compton scattering

A Ilderton, B King, D Seipt - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
The locally constant field approximation (LCFA) has to date underpinned the numerical
simulation of quantum processes in laser-plasma physics and astrophysics, but its validity …