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20142025
most citedDemonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

82 citations · 202 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

Radiative Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection: An Approach to Remote Probing of Reconnection Dynamics

Sergey K. Ermakov, Michael Bussmann, Alexander Debus +4

Magnetic reconnection drives a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, including geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and activity in blazars. However, direct measurement of key reconn…

physics.comp-ph2025

The Artificial Scientist -- in-transit Machine Learning of Plasma Simulations

Jeffrey Kelling, Vicente Bolea, Michael Bussmann +19

Increasing HPC cluster sizes and large-scale simulations that produce petabytes of data per run, create massive IO and storage challenges for analysis. Deep learning-based techniqu…

cs.PF2024

Streaming Data in HPC Workflows Using ADIOS

Greg Eisenhauer, Norbert Podhorszki, Ana Gainaru +12

The "IO Wall" problem, in which the gap between computation rate and data access rate grows continuously, poses significant problems to scientific workflows which have traditionall…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 1 cited

EZ: An Efficient, Charge Conserving Current Deposition Algorithm for Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations

Klaus Steiniger, Rene Widera, Sergei Bastrakov +13

We present EZ, a novel current deposition algorithm for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. EZ calculates the current density on the electromagnetic grid due to macro-particle moti…

physics.acc-ph2023

Learning Electron Bunch Distribution along a FEL Beamline by Normalising Flows

Anna Willmann, Jurjen Couperus Cabadağ, Yen-Yu Chang +7

Understanding and control of Laser-driven Free Electron Lasers remain to be difficult problems that require highly intensive experimental and theoretical research. The gap between…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Continual learning autoencoder training for a particle-in-cell simulation via streaming

Patrick Stiller, Varun Makdani, Franz Pöschel +4

The upcoming exascale era will provide a new generation of physics simulations. These simulations will have a high spatiotemporal resolution, which will impact the training of mach…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 34 cited

Stable and high quality electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators

F. M. Foerster, A. Döpp, F. Haberstroh +24

We present experimental results on a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) driven by high-current electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). In this staged setup stabl…

cs.PL2021★ 5 cited

Challenges Porting a C++ Template-Metaprogramming Abstraction Layer to Directive-based Offloading

Jeffrey Kelling, Sergei Bastrakov, Alexander Debus +10

HPC systems employ a growing variety of compute accelerators with different architectures and from different vendors. Large scientific applications are required to run efficiently…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Invertible Surrogate Models: Joint surrogate modelling and reconstruction of Laser-Wakefield Acceleration by invertible neural networks

Friedrich Bethke, Richard Pausch, Patrick Stiller +3

Invertible neural networks are a recent technique in machine learning promising neural network architectures that can be run in forward and reverse mode. In this paper, we will be…

cs.LG2021

Data-Driven Shadowgraph Simulation of a 3D Object

Anna Willmann, Patrick Stiller, Alexander Debus +5

In this work we propose a deep neural network based surrogate model for a plasma shadowgraph - a technique for visualization of perturbations in a transparent medium. We are substi…

cs.LG2020

Large-scale Neural Solvers for Partial Differential Equations

Patrick Stiller, Friedrich Bethke, Maximilian Böhme +6

Solving partial differential equations (PDE) is an indispensable part of many branches of science as many processes can be modelled in terms of PDEs. However, recent numerical solv…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 10 cited

Laser-plasma proton acceleration with a combined gas-foil target

Dan Levy, Constantin Bernert, Martin Rehwald +10

Laser-plasma proton acceleration was investigated in the Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) regime using a novel gas-foil target. The target is designed for reaching higher l…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 82 cited

Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

T. Kurz, T. Heinemann, M. F. Gilljohann +22

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art accelerator mod…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 37 cited

Probing Ultrafast Magnetic-Field Generation by Current Filamentation Instability in Femtosecond Relativistic Laser-Matter Interactions

G. Raj, O. Kononenko, A. Doche +28

We present experimental measurements of the femtosecond time-scale generation of strong magnetic-field fluctuations during the interaction of ultrashort, moderately relativistic la…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 7 cited

Restoring betatron phase coherence in a beam-loaded laser-wakefield accelerator

A. Köhler, R. Pausch, M. Bussmann +7

Matched beam loading in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), characterizing the state of flattening of the acceleration electric field along the bunch, leads to the minimization of…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 18 cited

Hybrid LWFA PWFA Staging as a Beam Energy and Brightness Transformer : Conceptual Design and Simulations

A. Martinez de la Ossa, R. W. Aßmann, R. Bussmann +16

We present a conceptual design for a hybrid laser-to-beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. In this setup, the output beams from a laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (LWF…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 7 cited

Quantitatively consistent computation of coherent and incoherent radiation in particle-in-cell codes - a general form factor formalism for macro-particles

Richard Pausch, Alexander Debus, Axel Huebl +4

Quantitative predictions from synthetic radiation diagnostics often have to consider all accelerated particles. For particle-in-cell (PIC) codes, this not only means including all…

physics.plasm-ph2014

Visualizing the Radiation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

Axel Huebl, David Pugmire, Felix Schmitt +2

Emerging new technologies in plasma simulations allow tracking billions of particles while computing their radiative spectra. We present a visualization of the relativistic Kelvin-…