402 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Instituto Superior TécnicoPT62 papers
- Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão NuclearPT57 papers
- Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaPT28 papers
- University of California, Los AngelesUS24 papers
- University of LisbonPT21 papers
- Imperial College LondonGB13 papers
- Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUS9 papers
- Rutherford Appleton LaboratoryGB8 papers
- Central Laser Facility7 papers
- Lancaster UniversityGB7 papers
- Max Planck Institute for PhysicsDE7 papers
- SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryUS7 papers
65 papers
Optimal laser focusing for positron production in laser-electron scattering
Óscar Amaro, Marija Vranic
Laser-electron beam collisions that aim to generate electron-positron pairs require laser intensities , which can be obtained by focusing a 1-PW…
Accurately simulating nine-dimensional phase space of relativistic particles in strong fields
Fei Li, Viktor K. Decyk, Kyle G. Miller +5
Next-generation high-power lasers that can be focused to intensities exceeding 10^23 W/cm^2 are enabling new physics and applications. The physics of how these lasers interact with…
A new field solver for modeling of relativistic particle-laser interactions using the particle-in-cell algorithm
Fei Li, Kyle G. Miller, Xinlu Xu +5
A customized finite-difference field solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm that provides higher fidelity for wave-particle interactions in intense electromagnetic waves i…
Dynamic load balancing with enhanced shared-memory parallelism for particle-in-cell codes
Kyle G. Miller, Roman P. Lee, Adam Tableman +4
Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to q…
Accurate spectra for high energy ions by advanced time-of-flight diamond-detector schemes in experiments with high energy and intensity lasers
M. Salvadori, F. Consoli, C. Verona +15
Time-Of-Flight (TOF) methods are very effective to detect particles accelerated in laser-plasma interactions, but they shows significant limitations when used in experiments with h…
Dissipation of electron-beam-driven plasma wakes
Rafal Zgadzaj, Zhengyan Li, M. C. Downer +10
Metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerators have imparted energy gain approaching 10 gigaelectronvolts to single nano-Coulomb electron bunches. To reach useful average currents, howe…
On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes
Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +7
The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to…
Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions
N. Shukla, K. Schoeffler, E. Boella +3
A novel setup allows the Weibel instability and its interplay with the Biermann battery to be probed in laser-driven collisionless plasmas. Ab initio particle-in-cell (PIC) simulat…
Single-shot multi-keV X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrashort laser wakefield accelerator source
B. Kettle, E. Gerstmayr, M. J. V. Streeter +19
Single-shot absorption measurements have been performed using the multi-keV X-rays generated by a laser wakefield accelerator. A 200 TW laser was used to drive a laser wakefield ac…
Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration in AWAKE
Edda Gschwendtner, Marlene Turner, the AWAKE Collaboration
In this article, we briefly summarize the experiments performed during the first Run of the Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE, at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Researc…
Acceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch
The AWAKE Collaboration, E. Adli, A. Ahuja +91
High energy particle accelerators have been crucial in providing a deeper understanding of fundamental particles and the forces that govern their interactions. In order to increase…
Design and characterization simulation of Ti: sapphire-based femtosecond laser system using Lab2 tools in the NI LabView
Mukhtar Hussain, Tayyab Imran
We report on the 825-nm center wavelength, 9.17 mJ pulse energy Ti:sapphire-based femtosecond laser system simulation carried out by Lab2 tools in LabVIEW (National Instruments, In…
Signatures of the self-modulation instability of relativistic proton bunches in the AWAKE experiment
M. Moreira, J. Vieira, P. Muggli
We investigate numerically the detection of the self-modulation instability in a virtual detector located downstream from the plasma in the context of AWAKE. We show that the densi…
Ultrafast Imaging of Laser Driven Shock Waves using Betatron X-rays from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
J. C. Wood, D. J. Chapman, K. Poder +21
Betatron radiation from laser wakefield accelerators is an ultrashort pulsed source of hard, synchrotron-like x-ray radiation. It emanates from a centimetre scale plasma accelerato…
Bright X-ray radiation from plasma bubbles in an evolving laser wakefield accelerator
M. S. Bloom, M. J. V. Streeter, S. Kneip +17
We show that the properties of the electron beam and bright x-rays produced by a laser wakefield accelerator can be predicted if the distance over which the laser self-focuses and…
Ion acceleration in electrostatic collisionless shock: on the optimal density profile for quasi-monoenergetic beams
E. Boella, F. Fiúza, A. Stockem Novo +2
A numerical study on ion acceleration in electrostatic shock waves is presented, with the aim of determining the best plasma configuration to achieve quasi-monoenergetic ion beams…
AWAKE readiness for the study of the seeded self-modulation of a 400\,GeV proton bunch
P. Muggli, E. Adli, R. Apsimon +104
AWAKE is a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. % We show that the experimental setup briefly described here is ready for systematic study of the seeded self-mod…
Quantum Electrodynamics vacuum polarization solver
Thomas Grismayer, Rui Torres, Pedro Carneiro +3
The self-consistent modeling of vacuum polarization due to virtual electron-positron fluctuations is of relevance for many near term experiments associated with high intensity radi…
Controlling the Numerical Cerenkov Instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction
Fei Li, Peicheng Yu, Xinlu Xu +10
In this paper we present a customized finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) Maxwell solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm. The solver is customized to effectively eliminat…
AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN
E. Gschwendtner, E. Adli, L. Amorim +88
The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches. It is a…
Laser absorption via QED cascades in counter propagating laser pulses
Thomas Grismayer, Marija Vranic, Joana L. Martins +2
A model for laser light absorption in electron-positron plasmas self-consistently created via QED cascades is described. The laser energy is mainly absorbed due to hard photon emis…
Vacuum decay in an interacting multiverse
S. Robles-Pérez, A. Alonso-Serrano, C. Bastos +1
We examine a new multiverse scenario in which the component universes interact. We focus our attention to the process of "true" vacuum nucleation in the false vacuum within one sin…
Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept
A. Caldwell, E. Adli, L. Amorim +118
This report describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield ac…
Seeded QED cascades in counter propagating laser pulses
Thomas Grismayer, Marija Vranic, Joana L Martins +2
The growth rates of seeded QED cascades in counter propagating lasers are calculated with first principles 2D/3D QED-PIC simulations. The dependence of the growth rate on laser pol…