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Unsupervised Discovery of Inertial-Fusion Plasma Physics using Differentiable Kinetic Simulations and a Maximum Entropy Loss Function
Archis S. Joglekar, Alexander G. R. Thomas
Plasma supports collective modes and particle-wave interactions that leads to complex behavior in inertial fusion energy applications. While plasma can sometimes be modeled as a ch…
Modelling Chromatic Emittance Growth in Staged Plasma Wakefield Acceleration to 1 TeV using Nonlinear Transfer Matrices
Alec G. R. Thomas, Daniel Seipt
A framework for integrating transfer matrices with particle-in-cell simulations is developed for TeV staging of plasma wakefield accelerators. Using nonlinear transfer matrices in…
Polarized QED cascades
Daniel Seipt, Christopher P. Ridgers, Dario Del Sorbo +1
By taking the spin and polarization of the electrons, positrons and photons into account in the strong-field QED processes of nonlinear Compton emission and pair production, we fin…
Relativistic Plasma Physics in Supercritical Fields
P. Zhang, S. S. Bulanov, D. Seipt +2
Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel prize in physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Com…
Ultrafast Polarization of an Electron Beam in an Intense Bi-chromatic Laser Field
Daniel Seipt, Dario Del Sorbo, Christopher P. Ridgers +1
Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions with ultrashort pulsed bi-chromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach…
A Frenet-Serret Interpretation of Particle Dynamics in High-Intensity Laser Fields
D. Seipt, A. G. R. Thomas
In this paper we discuss the dynamics of charged particles in high-intensity laser fields in the context of the Frenet-Serret formalism, which describes the intrinsic geometry of p…
Theory of Radiative Electron Polarization in Strong Laser Fields
D. Seipt, D. Del Sorbo, C. P. Ridgers +1
Radiative polarization of electrons and positrons through the Sokolov-Ternov effect is important for applications in high-energy physics. Radiative spin-polarization is a manifesta…
Momentum transport and nonlocality in heat-flux-driven magnetic reconnection in high energy density plasmas
Chang Liu, William Fox, Amitava Bhattacharjee +2
Recent theory has demonstrated a novel physics regime for magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density plasmas where the magnetic field is advected by heat flux via the Nernst effe…
Signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in laser -- electron-beam collisions
C. P. Ridgers, T. G. Blackburn, D. Del Sorbo +7
Two signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in the collision of a ~GeV electron-beam with a high-intensity (>3x10^20W/cm^2) laser-pulse have been considered. We show th…
Spin polarization of electrons by ultraintense lasers
D. Del Sorbo, D. Seipt, T. G. Blackburn +4
In a strong magnetic field, ultra-relativistic electrons or positrons undergo spin flip transitions as they radiate, preferentially spin polarizing in one direction -- the Sokolov-…
Nernst Effect in Magnetized Plasmas
Archis S. Joglekar, Alexander G. R. Thomas, Christopher P. Ridgers +1
We present nanosecond timescale Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Maxwell modeling of magnetized plasma transport and dynamics in a hohlraum with an applied external magnetic field, under condi…
On the design of experiments to study extreme field limits
S. S. Bulanov, M. Chen, C. B. Schroeder +13
We propose experiments on the collision of high intensity electromagnetic pulses with electron bunches and on the collision of multiple electromagnetic pulses for studying extreme…
Numerical calculations of a high brilliance synchrotron source and on issues with characterizing strong radiation damping effects in non-linear Thomson/Compton backscattering experiments
A. G. R. Thomas, C. P. Ridgers, S. S. Bulanov +2
A number of theoretical calculations have studied the effect of radiation reaction forces on radiation distributions in strong field counter-propagating electron beam-laser interac…
On the Schwinger limit attainability with extreme power lasers
Stepan S. Bulanov, Timur Zh. Esirkepov, Alexander G. R. Thomas +2
Circularly polarized colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [A. R. Bell and J. G. Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008)], which scattering the…