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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

From quantum to classical modeling of radiation reaction: A focus on stochasticity effects

F Niel, C Riconda, F Amiranoff, R Duclous, M Grech - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Radiation reaction in the interaction of ultrarelativistic electrons with a strong external
electromagnetic field is investigated using a kinetic approach in the nonlinear moderately …

Multi-GeV electron-positron beam generation from laser-electron scattering

M Vranic, O Klimo, G Korn, S Weber - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The new generation of laser facilities is expected to deliver short (10 fs–100 fs) laser pulses
with 10–100 PW of peak power. This opens an opportunity to study matter at extreme …

Ultrafast polarization of an electron beam in an intense bichromatic laser field

D Seipt, D Del Sorbo, CP Ridgers, AGR Thomas - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions
with ultrashort pulsed bichromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for …

Bright X/-ray emission and lepton pair production by strong laser fields: a review

TP Yu, K Liu, J Zhao, XL Zhu, Y Lu, Y Cao… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - Springer
The advent of high-power ultra-short laser pulses opens up new frontiers of relativistic non-
linear optics, high energy density physics and laboratory astrophysics. As the laser electric …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking semiclassical approaches to strong-field QED: Nonlinear Compton scattering in intense laser pulses

TG Blackburn, D Seipt, SS Bulanov, M Marklund - Physics of Plasmas, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The recoil associated with photon emission is key to the dynamics of ultrarelativistic
electrons in strong electromagnetic fields, as found in high-intensity laser-matter interactions …

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 …