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-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and γ-photon beams have many significant
applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high …

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 …

Generation of circularly polarized (CP) and linearly polarized (LP) γ rays via the single-shot
interaction of an ultraintense laser pulse with a spin-polarized counterpropagating …

The production of a highly polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes
during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudinally …

In situ generation of a high-energy, high-current, spin-polarized electron beam is an
outstanding scientific challenge to the development of plasma-based accelerators for high …

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 …

We propose a new approach based on an all-optical set-up for generating relativistic
polarized electron beams via vortex Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser-driven wakefield …

The acceleration of polarized electrons and protons in strong laser and plasma fields is a
very attractive option to obtain polarized beams in the GeV range. We investigate the …

Laser wakefield acceleration is paving the way for the next generation of electron
accelerators, for their own sake and as radiation sources. A controllable dual-wake injection …