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19982025
most citedCharacterization of the initial filamentation of a relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma

201 citations

47 papers

physics.plasm-ph2025

Ultrafast ps--TALIF and streak camera diagnostics of atomic hydrogen in a helium microplasma jet

Dimitrios Stefas, Yanis Agha, Laurent Invernizzi +6

Picosecond two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence (ps--TALIF) is combined with a streak camera (1 ps highest temporal resolution) to probe the effective lifetime ($…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Glow-to-arc transition in graphite cathode with high-current magnetron discharge

Erwan Morel, Yoann Rozier, Tiberiu Minea

The glow-to-arc transition is a critical phenomenon in plasma discharges, commonly leading to detrimental effects. The physical mechanisms triggering this transition remain poorly…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Surrogate Models studies for laser-plasma accelerator electron source design through numerical optimisation

G. Kane, P. Drobniak, S. Kazamias +8

Designing a high-quality plasma injector electron source driven by a laser beam relies on numerical parametric studies using particle-in-cell codes. The common input parameters to…

physics.acc-ph2023

Fast Particle-in-Cell simulations-based method for the optimisation of a laser-plasma electron injector

P Drobniak, E Baynard, C Bruni +13

A method for the optimisation and advanced studies of a laser-plasma electron injector is presented, based on a truncated ionisation injection scheme for high quality beam producti…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 2 cited

Plasma density profile reconstruction of a gas cell for Ionization Induced Laser Wakefield Acceleration

F. Filippi, L. T. Dickson, M. Backhouse +15

Laser-driven plasma wakefields can provide hundreds of MeV electron beam in mm-range distances potentially shrinking the dimension of the actual particle accelerators. The plasma d…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 2 cited

H- Beam formation simulation in negative ion source for CERN's Linac4 accelerator

Anna Vnuchenko, Jacques Lettry, Dirk Wünderlich +5

The caesiated surface negative ion source is the first element of CERN's LINAC4 a linear injector designed to accelerate negative hydrogen ions to 160 MeV. The IS03 ion source is o…

quant-ph2022

Interaction of two Rydberg atoms in the vicinity of an optical nanofibre

E. Stourm, M. Lepers, J. Robert +3

We consider two rubidium atoms, prepared in the same S or P Rydberg states near an optical nanofibre. We determine the van der Waals interaction between them and identify novel fea…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Optical force between two coupled identical parallel optical nanofibers

Fam Le Kien, Sile Nic Chormaic, Thomas Busch

We study the optical force between two coupled parallel identical nanofibers using the rigorous array mode theory. We show that the forces of the even array modes are attractive, w…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 6 cited

Rubidium atom spectral lineshapes in high intensity electric fields near an optical nanofibre

Vandna Gokhroo, Fam Le Kien, Síle Nic Chormaic

The integration of cold atomic systems with optical nanofibres is an increasingly important experimental platform. Here, we report on the spectra observed during a strongly driven,…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 20 cited

European Strategy for Particle Physics -- Accelerator R&D Roadmap

C. Adolphsen, D. Angal-Kalinin, T. Arndt +133

The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics emphasised the importance of an intensified and well-coordinated programme of accelerator R&D, supporting the design a…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 9 cited

Ionized particle transport in reactive HiPIMS discharge: correlation between the energy distribution functions of neutral and ionized atoms

Abderzak El Farsy, Dimitri Boivin, Cédric Noel +4

We investigated the transport titanium ions produced in a reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) device used for TiN coating deposition. Time-resolved mass spect…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 23 cited

On the electron energy distribution function in the high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge

Martin Rudolph, A. Revel, D. Lundin +6

We apply the Ionization Region Model (IRM) and the Orsay Boltzmann equation for ELectrons coupled with Ionization and eXcited states kinetics (OBELIX) model to study the electron k…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 8 cited

A simplified procedure to capture N(4S) kinetics during the transients of a strongly emissive pulsed ECR plasma using TALIF

E Bisceglia, Swaminathan Prasanna, K. Gazeli +4

A simplified and straightforward methodology that may be used to measure N(4 S) density by TALIF technique in strongly emissive plasmas is presented. The method makes use of the ab…

physics.app-ph2020★ 5 cited

Post-corona unipolar chargers with tuneable aerosol size-charge relations: Parameters affecting ion dispersion and particle trajectories for charger designs

N. Jidenko, A. Bouarouri, F. Gensdarmes +3

This paper focusses on the mean charge per particle of monodisperse submicron aerosol, charged by diffusion of unipolar ions in post-corona discharge. It aims to confirm and discus…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Breaking simple quantum position verification protocols with little entanglement

Andrea Olivo, Ulysse Chabaud, André Chailloux +1

Instantaneous nonlocal quantum computation (INQC) evades apparent quantum and relativistic constraints and allows to attack generic quantum position verification (QPV) protocols (a…

physics.acc-ph2020

Electron Sources from Plasmas

Brigitte Cros

Relativistic electrons are easily generated by self-injection when an intense laser drives a wakefield in a plasma, giving rise to wide electron energy distributions. Several mecha…

physics.atom-ph2020

Quantum State Preparation of Hydrogen Atoms by Hyperfine Quenching

Amanda Alencar, Ítalo Prazeres, Carlos Renato de Carvalho +5

We discuss the use of a region of uniform and constant magnetic field in order to implement a two-state atomic polarizer for an H(2S) beam. We have observed that a device with such…

physics.plasm-ph2020

Toward inertial confinement fusion energy based on heavy ion beam

S. Kawata, M. Okamura, K. Horioka +7

Heavy ion inertial fusion (HIF) energy would be one of promising energy resources securing our future energy in order to sustain our human life for centuries and beyond. The heavy…

quant-ph2020★ 37 cited

Spontaneous emission and energy shifts of a Rydberg rubidium atom close to an optical nanofiber

E. Stourm, M. Lepers, J. Robert +3

In this paper, we report on numerical calculations of the spontaneous emission rates and Lamb shifts of a atom in a Rydberg-excited state lo…

physics.chem-ph2020

Direct and real-time analysis in a plasma reactor using a compact FTICR/MS: degradation of acetone in nitrogen and by-products formation

Sébastien Thomas, Nicole Blin-Simiand, Michel Heninger +6

Methods for reduction of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) content in air depend on the 10 application considered. For low concentration and low flux, non-thermal plasma methods ar…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 60 cited

R&D around a photoneutralizer-based NBI system (Siphore) in view of a DEMO Tokamak steady state fusion reactor

A. Simonin, Jocelyn Achard, K. Achkasov +28

Since the signature of the ITER treaty in 2006, a new research programme targeting the emergence of a new generation of Neutral Beam (NB) system for the future fusion reactor (DEMO…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 2 cited

35 megawatt multicycle THz pulses from a homemade periodically poled macrocrystal

Francois Lemery, Thomas Vinatier, Frank Mayet +7

High-power multicycle THz radiation is highly sought after with applications in medicine, imaging, spectroscopy, characterization and manipulation of condensed matter, and could su…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 12 cited

ALEGRO input for the 2020 update of the European Strategy

B. Cros, P. Muggli

Advanced and Novel Accelerators (ANAs) can provide acceleration gradients orders of magnitude greater than conventional accelerator technologies, and hence they have the potential…

physics.ins-det2018

Single-shot temporal profile measurement of a soft X-ray laser pulse

Fabien Tissandier, Julien Gautier, Amar Tafzi +6

We report an original method allowing to recover the temporal profile of any kind of soft X-ray laser pulse in single-shot operation. We irradiated a soft X-ray multilayer mirror w…