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 …

Direct laser acceleration of electrons assisted by strong laser-driven azimuthal plasma magnetic fields

Z Gong, F Mackenroth, T Wang, XQ Yan, T Toncian… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A high-intensity laser beam propagating through a dense plasma drives a strong current that
robustly sustains a strong quasistatic azimuthal magnetic field. The laser field efficiently …

Monoenergetic high-energy ion source via femtosecond laser interacting with a microtape

XF Shen, A Pukhov, B Qiao - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Intense laser-plasma ion sources are characterized by an unsurpassed acceleration
gradient and exceptional beam emittance. They are promising candidates for next …

Effects of the transverse instability and wave breaking on the laser-driven thin foil acceleration

Y Wan, IA Andriyash, W Lu, WB Mori, V Malka - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Acceleration of ultrathin foils by the laser radiation pressure promises a compact alternative
to the conventional ion sources. Among the challenges on the way to practical realization …

Ion acceleration and DD fusion neutron generation in relativistically transparent deuterated nanowire arrays

A Curtis, R Hollinger, C Calvi, S Wang, S Huanyu… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Laser irradiation of deuterated polyethylene nanowire arrays at intensities of 5× 10 19 W cm–
2 was recently reported to accelerate deuterons to multi-MeV energies, resulting in …

Detailed study of quantum path interferences in high harmonic generation driven by chirped laser pulses

T Csizmadia, LG Oldal, P Ye, S Majorosi… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the electron quantum path interference (QPI) effects during high harmonic
generation in atomic gas medium driven by ultrashort chirped laser pulses. To achieve that …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum splitting of electron peaks in ultra-strong fields

B Zhang, ZM Zhang, WM Zhou - Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Effects of multiple nonlinear Compton scattering on electrons in ultra-strong fields are
described using analytic formulas similar to those in the theory of multiple bremsstrahlung …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled transition to different proton acceleration regimes: Near-critical-density plasmas driven by circularly polarized few-cycle pulses

SC De Marco, S Mondal, D Margarone… - Matter and Radiation at …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A controlled transition between two different ion acceleration mechanisms would pave the
way to achieving different ion energies and spectral features within the same experimental …

Bunched proton acceleration from a laser-irradiated cone target

XL Zhu, WY Liu, M Chen, SM Weng, P McKenna… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Laser-driven ion acceleration is an attractive technique to generate compact high-energy ion
sources. Currently, among various physical and technical issues to be solved, boosting the …

Co-design of a particle-in-cell plasma simulation code for Intel Xeon Phi: a first look at Knights Landing

I Surmin, S Bastrakov, Z Matveev, E Efimenko… - … and Architectures for …, 2016 - Springer
Three dimensional particle-in-cell laser-plasma simulation is an important area of
computational physics. Solving state-of-the-art problems requires large-scale simulation on …