All-optical nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production with -flash photons

AJ MacLeod, P Hadjisolomou, TM Jeong, SV Bulanov - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
High-power laser facilities give experimental access to fundamental strong-field quantum
electrodynamics processes. A key effect to be explored is the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler …

Towards bright gamma-ray flash generation from tailored target irradiated by multi-petawatt laser

P Hadjisolomou, TM Jeong, SV Bulanov - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
One of the remarkable phenomena in the laser-matter interaction is the extremely efficient
energy transfer to γ-photons, that appears as a collimated γ-ray beam. For interactions of …

Gamma-flash generation in multi-petawatt laser–matter interactions

P Hadjisolomou, TM Jeong, D Kolenaty… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The progressive development of high power lasers over the last several decades enables
the study of c-photon generation when an intense laser beam interacts with matter, mainly …

Optimization and control of synchrotron emission in ultraintense laser–solid interactions using machine learning

J Goodman, M King, EJ Dolier, R Wilson… - High Power Laser …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The optimum parameters for the generation of synchrotron radiation in ultraintense laser
pulse interactions with planar foils are investigated with the application of Bayesian …

Intense ү-Ray Bursts following the Interaction of Laser Pulse with Steep Density Gradients

S Chintalwad, S Krishnamurthy, S Morris… - Laser and Particle …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We investigate the production of intense ү-rays following the interaction of ultraintense laser
pulse with a hybrid combination of under-dense plasma associated with a thin foil of fully …

Numerical investigation of non-linear inverse Compton scattering in double-layer targets

M Galbiati, A Formenti, M Grech, M Passoni - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Non-linear inverse Compton scattering (NICS) is of significance in laser-plasma physics and
for application-relevant laser-driven photon sources. Given this interest, we investigated this …

[HTML][HTML] Gamma-ray back emission from nanowire array irradiated by ultra-intense relativistic laser pulse

FTT Houng, SY Hoh, I Yusuff, KA Tanaka, JF Ong - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A highly energetic photon is emitted via nonlinear inverse Compton scattering after an
electron undergoes scattering with an ultra-intense relativistic laser pulse. In the laser …

Advances in Design and Fabrication of Micro-Structured Solid Targets for High-Power Laser-Matter Interaction

F Jipa, L Ionel, M Zamfirescu - Photonics, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Accelerated particles have multiple applications in materials research, medicine, and the
space industry. In contrast to classical particle accelerators, laser-driven acceleration at …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation studies of γ-ray radiation in laser-plasma interactions with structured targets

S Chintalwad, S Krishnamurthy, S Morris… - Fundamental Plasma …, 2024 - Elsevier
We studied the γ-ray emission from laser interactions with structured targets of Al and Au.
Bremsstrahlung and Non-linear Compton Scattering (NCS) emission are considered for the …

Optimisation of proton acceleration and synchrotron radiation in ultraintense laser-solid interactions

J Goodman - 2023 - stax.strath.ac.uk
This thesis reports on numerical investigations of laser-solid interactions with peak laser
intensities in the approximate range 1021–1024Wcm− 2, where few experiments have yet …