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 …

Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

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 …

Modelling gamma-ray photon emission and pair production in high-intensity laser–matter interactions

CP Ridgers, JG Kirk, R Duclous, TG Blackburn… - Journal of computational …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In high-intensity (> 10 21 W cm− 2) laser–matter interactions gamma-ray photon
emission by the electrons can strongly affect the electronʼs dynamics and copious numbers …

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 …

High-order multiphoton Thomson scattering

W Yan, C Fruhling, G Golovin, D Haden, J Luo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Electron–photon scattering, or Thomson scattering, is one of the most fundamental
mechanisms in electrodynamics, underlying laboratory and astrophysical sources of high …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] P3: An installation for high-energy density plasma physics and ultra-high intensity laser–matter interaction at ELI-Beamlines

S Weber, S Bechet, S Borneis, L Brabec… - Matter and Radiation …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
ELI-Beamlines (ELI-BL), one of the three pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure
endeavour, will be in a unique position to perform research in high-energy-density-physics …

Dense GeV electron–positron pairs generated by lasers in near-critical-density plasmas

XL Zhu, TP Yu, ZM Sheng, Y Yin, ICE Turcu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Pair production can be triggered by high-intensity lasers via the Breit–Wheeler process.
However, the straightforward laser–laser colliding for copious numbers of pair creation …