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 …

All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser

M Mirzaie, CI Hojbota, DY Kim, VB Pathak, TG Pak… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Light–matter interactions driven by ultrahigh-intensity lasers have great potential to uncover
the physics associated with quantum electrodynamics (QED) processes occurring in neutron …

[HTML][HTML] Technical Design Report for the LUXE experiment

LUXE collaboration, H Abramowicz… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract This Technical Design Report presents a detailed description of all aspects of the
LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that will combine the high-quality and …

[HTML][HTML] Bounding elastic photon-photon scattering at s≈ 1 MeV using a laser-plasma platform

R Watt, B Kettle, E Gerstmayr, B King, A Alejo… - Physics Letters B, 2025 - Elsevier
We report on a direct search for elastic photon-photon scattering using x-ray and γ photons
from a laser-plasma based experiment. A γ photon beam produced by a laser wakefield …

A laser–plasma platform for photon–photon physics: the two photon Breit–Wheeler process

B Kettle, D Hollatz, E Gerstmayr… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a laser–plasma platform for photon–photon collision experiments to measure
fundamental quantum electrodynamic processes. As an example we describe using this …

Compact spectroscopy of keV to MeV X-rays from a laser wakefield accelerator

A Hannasch, A Laso Garcia, M LaBerge, R Zgadzaj… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We reconstruct spectra of secondary X-rays from a tunable 250–350 MeV laser wakefield
electron accelerator from single-shot X-ray depth-energy measurements in a compact (7.5× …

Development of control mechanisms for a laser wakefield accelerator-driven bremsstrahlung x-ray source for advanced radiographic imaging

CID Underwood, CD Baird, CD Murphy… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A high power laser was used to accelerate electrons in a laser-driven wakefield accelerator.
The high energy electrons were then used to generate an x-ray beam by passing them …

Development, optimization, and calibration of an active electromagnetic calorimeter for pulsed radiation spectrometry

V Stránský, V Istokskaia, R Versaci… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectrometry in radiation fields generated by high power lasers is challenging, since the
radiation is created in ultra short pulses (10-14–10-12 s) and thus standard spectrometric …