Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

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 …

High-intensity lasers are critical for the exploration of strong field quantum electrodynamics.
We report here a demonstration of laser intensity exceeding 10^23W/cm^2 with the CoReLS …

X-ray free-electron lasers can generate intense and coherent radiation at wavelengths down
to the sub-ångström region,,,–, and have become indispensable tools for applications in …

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 …

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 …

Plasma-based accelerators use the strong electromagnetic fields that can be supported by
plasmas to accelerate charged particles to high energies. Accelerating field structures in …

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 …

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 …

Laser-plasma wakefield accelerators have seen tremendous progress, now capable of
producing quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in the GeV energy range with few …