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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Relativistic plasma physics in supercritical fields

P Zhang, SS Bulanov, D Seipt, AV Arefiev… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in
physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Combined …

Laser wakefield accelerator modelling with variational neural networks

MJV Streeter, C Colgan, CC Cobo, C Arran… - High Power Laser …, 2023 - cambridge.org
A machine learning model was created to predict the electron spectrum generated by a GeV-
class laser wakefield accelerator. The model was constructed from variational convolutional …

Analytical solutions for quantum radiation reaction in high-intensity lasers

TG Blackburn - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
While the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which describes classical radiation reaction, can be
solved exactly and analytically for a charged particle accelerated by a plane electromagnetic …

Model-independent inference of laser intensity

TG Blackburn, E Gerstmayr, SPD Mangles… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation
around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here, we show that …

Effect of electron-beam energy chirp on signatures of radiation reaction in laser-based experiments

J Magnusson, TG Blackburn, E Gerstmayr, EE Los… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
Current experiments investigating radiation reaction employ high energy electron beams
together with tightly focused laser pulses in order to reach the quantum regime, as …

Quantum-stochasticity-induced asymmetry in the angular distribution of electrons in a quasiclassical regime

G Hu, WQ Sun, BJ Li, YF Li, WM Wang, M Zhu, HS Hu… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Impacts of quantum stochasticity on the dynamics of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-
on colliding with a linearly polarized ultraintense laser pulse are theoretically investigated in …

Effect of laser temporal intensity skew on enhancing pair production in laser—electron-beam collisions

LE Bradley, MJV Streeter, CD Murphy… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent high-intensity laser experiments (Cole et al 2018 Phys. Rev. X 8 011020; Poder et al
2018 Phys. Rev. X 8 031004) have shown evidence of strong radiation reaction in the …