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 …

Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

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 …

Decoding sources of energy variability in a laser-plasma accelerator

AR Maier, NM Delbos, T Eichner, L Hübner, S Jalas… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Laser-plasma acceleration promises compact sources of high-brightness relativistic electron
beams. However, the limited stability often associated with laser-plasma acceleration has …

Experimental signatures of the quantum nature of radiation reaction in the field of an ultraintense laser

K Poder, M Tamburini, G Sarri, A Di Piazza, S Kuschel… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of
arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics …

Petawatt laser guiding and electron beam acceleration to 8 GeV in a laser-heated capillary discharge waveguide

AJ Gonsalves, K Nakamura, J Daniels, C Benedetti… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Guiding of relativistically intense laser pulses with peak power of 0.85 PW over 15 diffraction
lengths was demonstrated by increasing the focusing strength of a capillary discharge …

The extreme light infrastructure—nuclear physics (ELI-NP) facility: new horizons in physics with 10 PW ultra-intense lasers and 20 MeV brilliant gamma beams

S Gales, KA Tanaka, DL Balabanski… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected in
2006 a proposal based on ultra-intense laser fields with intensities reaching up to 10 22–10 …

Multistage coupling of independent laser-plasma accelerators

S Steinke, J Van Tilborg, C Benedetti, CGR Geddes… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) are capable of accelerating charged particles to very high
energies in very compact structures. In theory, therefore, they offer advantages over …

Undepleted direct laser acceleration

I Cohen, T Meir, K Tangtartharakul, L Perelmutter… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Intense lasers enable generating high-energy particle beams in university-scale
laboratories. With the direct laser acceleration (DLA) method, the leading part of the laser …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program

KA Tanaka, KM Spohr, DL Balabanski… - Matter and Radiation …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The emergence of a new era reaching beyond current state-of-the-art ultrashort and
ultraintense laser technology has been enabled by the approval of around€ 850 million …