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most citedDirect High-Power Laser Acceleration of Ions for Medical Applications

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physics.optics2025

Generation of Relativistic Structured Spin-Polarized Lepton Beams

Zhong-Peng Li, Yu Wang, Yousef I. Salamin +6

Relativistic structured spin-polarized (SSP) particle beams, characterized by polarization structures, are of critical importance in a wide range of applications, such as material…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Compact Efficient Polarizers for Relativistic Electron Beams

Kun Xue, Yue Cao, Feng Wan +9

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 1 cited

Compact Spin-Polarized Positron Acceleration in Multi-Layer Microhole Array Films

Zhen-Ke Dou, Chong Lv, Yousef I. Salamin +4

Compact spin-polarized positron accelerators play a major role in promoting significant positron application research, which typically require high acceleration gradients and polar…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Generation of Ultra-Collimated Polarized Attosecond Rays via Beam Instabilities

Li-Jie Cui, Ke-Jia Wei, Chong Lv +4

Polarized attosecond rays may offer excitation and hyperfine tracking of reactions relevant to nuclear physics, astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc. However, unfortunately,…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Ultrafast Spin Rotation of Relativistic Lepton Beams via Terahertz Wave in a Dielectric-Lined Waveguide

Zhong-Peng Li, Yu Wang, Ting Sun +8

Spin rotation is central for the spin-manipulation of lepton beams which, in turn, plays an important role in investigation of the properties of spin-polarized lepton beams and the…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Generation of High-Brilliance Polarized -Rays via Vacuum Dichroism-assisted Vacuum Birefringence

Chong Lv, Feng Wan, Yousef I. Salamin +4

We put forward a novel method to generate high-brilliance polarized -photon beams via vacuum dichroism (VD)-assisted vacuum birefringence (VB) effect. We split a linearly polari…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Generation of photons with extremely large orbital angular momenta

Ren-Tong Guo, Mamutjan Ababekri, Qian Zhao +6

Vortex photons, which carry large intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM), have significant applications in nuclear, atomic, hadron, particle and astro-physics, but their produ…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Diagnosis of ultrafast ultraintense laser pulse characteristics by machine-learning-assisted electron spin

Zhi-Wei Lu, Xin-Di Hou, Feng Wan +6

Rapid development of ultrafast ultraintense laser technologies continues to create opportunities for studying strong-field physics under extreme conditions. However, accurate deter…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 1 cited

Generation of ultrabrilliant polarized attosecond electron bunch via dual-wake injection

Ting Sun, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan +2

Laser wakefield acceleration is paving the way for the next generation of electron accelerators, for their own sake and as radiation sources. A controllable dual-wake injection sch…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 1 cited

Production of polarized particle beams via ultraintense laser pulses

Ting Sun, Qian Zhao, Kun Xue +6

High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and -photon beams have many significant applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and…

physics.plasm-ph2022

All-optical ultrafast spin rotation for relativistic charged particle beams

Wen-Qing Wei, Feng Wan, Yousef I. Salamin +5

An all-optical method of ultrafast spin rotation is put forward to precisely manipulate the polarization of relativistic charged particle beams of leptons or ions. In particular, l…

astro-ph.HE2021

Investigation of the particle-particle interaction effects in the cosmic Zevatron based on cyclotron auto-resonance by particle-in-cell simulations

Yousef I. Salamin, Qian Zhao, Ting Sun

Cyclotron autoresonance acceleration has been recently advanced as a potential mechanism for accelerating nuclei to ZeV energies (1 ZeV = eV). All results have been based…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

A cosmic Zevatron based on cyclotron auto-resonance

Yousef I. Salamin, Meng Wen, Christoph H. Keitel

A Zevatron is an accelerator scheme envisaged to accelerate particles to ZeV energies (1 ZeV = eV). Schemes, most notably the internal shock model, have been proposed to…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 17 cited

Electron acceleration in direct laser-solid interactions far beyond the ponderomotive limit

Meng Wen, Yousef I. Salamin, Christoph H. Keitel

In laser-solid interactions, electrons may be generated and subsequently accelerated to energies of the order-of-magnitude of the ponderomotive limit, with the underlying process d…

physics.optics2018

Bessel-Bessel laser bullets doing the twist

Yousef I. Salamin

Bessel beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). Opening up of the Hilbert space of OAM for information coding makes Bessel beams potential candidates for utility in data transfe…

astro-ph.HE2018

A cosmic Zevatron based on cyclotron auto-resonance

Yousef I. Salamin

A Tevatron is an accelerator capable of imparting TeV energies to particles like a proton (1 TeV = eV). By analogy, a Zevatron is an accelerator scheme envisaged to accel…

physics.optics2017★ 5 cited

Fields of an ultrashort tightly focused radially polarized laser pulse in a linear response plasma

Yousef I. Salamin

Analytic expressions for the fields of a radially polarized, ultrashort and tightly focused laser pulse propagating in a linear-response plasma are derived and discussed. The field…

physics.optics2017★ 3 cited

Electromagnetic fields of an ultra-short tightly-focused radially-polarized laser pulse

Yousef I. Salamin, Jian-Xing Li

Fully analytic expressions, for the electric and magnetic fields of an ultrashort and tightly focused laser pulse of the radially polarized category, are presented to lowest order…

physics.optics2015★ 9 cited

Feasibility of electron cyclotron autoresonance acceleration by a short terahertz pulse

Yousef I. Salamin, Jian-Xing Li, Benjamin J. Galow +1

A vacuum autoresonance accelerator scheme for electrons, which employs terahertz radiation and currently available magnetic fields, is suggested. Based on numerical simulations, pa…

physics.optics2015★ 37 cited

Fields of an ultrashort tightly-focused laser pulse

Jian-Xing Li, Yousef I. Salamin, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan +1

Analytic expressions for the electromagnetic fields of an ultrashort, tightly focused, linearly polarized laser pulse in vacuum are derived from scalar and vector potentials, using…

physics.acc-ph2014★ 15 cited

Simulation of the relativistic electron dynamics and acceleration in a linearly-chirped laser pulse

Najeh M. Jisrawi, Benjamin J. Galow, Yousef I. Salamin

Theoretical investigations are presented, and their results are discussed, of the laser acceleration of a single electron by a chirped pulse. Fields of the pulse are modeled by sim…

physics.acc-ph2013★ 32 cited

Electron laser acceleration in vacuum by a quadratically chirped laser pulse

Yousef I. Salamin, Najeh M. Jisrawi

Single MeV electrons subjected in vacuum to single high-intensity quadratically-chirped laser pulses are shown to gain multi-GeV energies. The laser pulses are modeled by finite-du…

physics.acc-ph2013★ 22 cited

High-quality multi-GeV electron bunches via cyclotron autoresonance

Benjamin J. Galow, Jian-Xing Li, Yousef I. Salamin +2

Autoresonance laser acceleration of electrons is theoretically investigated using circularly polarized focused Gaussian pulses. Many-particle simulations demonstrate feasibility of…

physics.plasm-ph2011★ 49 cited

Dense monoenergetic proton beams from chirped laser-plasma interaction

Benjamin J. Galow, Yousef I. Salamin, Tatyana V. Liseykina +2

Interaction of a frequency-chirped laser pulse with single protons and a hydrogen plasma cell is studied analytically and by means of particle-in-cell simulations, respectively. Fe…