Perspectives on the generation of electron beams from plasma-based accelerators and their near and long term applications

C Joshi, S Corde, WB Mori - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This article first gives the authors' perspectives on how the field of plasma-based
acceleration (PBA) developed and how the current experiments, theory, and simulations are …

Radiation reaction enhancement in flying focus pulses

M Formanek, D Ramsey, JP Palastro, A Di Piazza - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Radiation reaction (RR) is the oldest still-unsolved problem in electrodynamics. In addition
to conceptual difficulties in its theoretical formulation, the requirement of exceedingly large …

Polarized QED cascades

D Seipt, CP Ridgers, D Del Sorbo… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
By taking the spin and polarization of the electrons, positrons and photons into account in
the strong-field QED processes of nonlinear Compton emission and pair production, we find …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic theory for spin-polarized relativistic plasmas

D Seipt, AGR Thomas - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The investigation of spin and polarization effects in ultra-high intensity laser–plasma and
laser–beam interactions has become an emergent topic in high-field science recently. In this …

Plasma acceleration of polarized particle beams

L Reichwein, Z Gong, C Zheng, L Ji, A Pukhov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering,
eg to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high …

[HTML][HTML] RaDiO: An efficient spatiotemporal radiation diagnostic for particle-in-cell codes

M Pardal, A Sainte-Marie, A Reboul-Salze… - Computer Physics …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work describes a novel radiation algorithm designed to capture the three-dimensional,
space-time resolved electromagnetic field structure emitted by large ensembles of charged …

Exact solutions in radiation reaction and the radiation-free direction

R Ekman, T Heinzl, A Ilderton - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new exact solutions of the Landau–Lifshitz (LL) and higher-order LL equations
describing particle motion, with radiation reaction, in intense electromagnetic fields. Through …

Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process into a plasma channel

D Maslarova, B Martinez, M Vranic - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-
TeV electron–positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for …

Particle acceleration and radiation reaction in a strongly magnetised rotating dipole

J Pétri - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Neutron stars are surrounded by ultra-relativistic particles efficiently accelerated by
ultra-strong electromagnetic fields. These particles copiously emit high-energy photons …

Spin effects in ultrafast laser-plasma interactions

G Manfredi, PA Hervieux, N Crouseilles - The European Physical Journal …, 2023 - Springer
Ultrafast laser pulses interacting with plasmas can give rise to a rich spectrum of physical
phenomena, which have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally …