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Proton acceleration with intense twisted laser light
Camilla Willim, Jorge Vieira, Victor Malka +1
An efficient approach that considers a high-intensity twisted laser of moderate energy (few J) is proposed to generate collimated proton bunches with multi-10-MeV energies from a d…
Laser-Driven, Ion-Scale Magnetospheres in Laboratory Plasmas. II. Particle-in-cell Simulations
Filipe D. Cruz, Derek B. Schaeffer, Fábio Cruz +1
Ion-scale magnetospheres have been observed around comets, weakly-magnetized asteroids, and localized regions on the Moon, and provide a unique environment to study kinetic-scale p…
Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions
Thales Silva, Kevin Schoeffler, Jorge Vieira +3
We identify a mechanism for magnetic field generation in the interaction of intense electromagnetic waves and underdense plasmas. We show that Raman scattered plasma waves trap and…
Compton driven beam formation and magnetisation via plasma microinstabilities
Bertrand Martinez, Thomas Grismayer, Luís O. Silva
Compton scattering of gamma rays propagating in a pair plasma can drive the formation of a relativistic electron positron beam. This process is scrutinised theoretically and numeri…
Kinetic model of large-amplitude oscillations in neutron star pair cascades
Fábio Cruz, Thomas Grismayer, Luis O. Silva
Electron-positron pair cascades developed in the extreme electromagnetic fields of neutron star polar caps are considered a key source of magnetospheric plasma in these objects. We…
Plasma wakes driven by photon bursts via Compton scattering
Fabrizio Del Gaudio, Ricardo Fonseca, Luis O. Silva +1
Photon bursts with a wavelength smaller than the plasma inter-particle distance can drive plasma wakes via Compton scattering. We investigate this fundamental process analytically…