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20182026
most citedPolarized electron-beam acceleration driven by vortex laser pulses

54 citations · 101 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Radiative depolarization of high-energy electron beams in wakefield accelerators

Oliver Mathiak, Lars Reichwein, Alexander Pukhov +2

The preservation of witness beam polarization in wakefield accelerators will be crucial for future collider applications. While extensive theoretical studies on the injection and i…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Pinching injection in wakefields for spin-polarized electron beams

Lars Reichwein, Dimitris Sofikitis, Oliver Mathiak +5

Pinching of the driver beam in plasma wakefield acceleration is generally considered an unwanted effect that needs to be mitigated. Here, we propose that this effect can be utilize…

physics.chem-ph2025

Spin manipulation and nuclear polarization enhancement in particle beams with static magnetic fields

Chrysovalantis S. Kannis, Ralf Engels, Tarek El-Kordy +5

A theoretical study of spin dynamics in non-relativistic particle beams with interacting angular momenta traversing static, spatially varying magnetic fields is presented. The comp…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 3 cited

Plasma acceleration of polarized particle beams

Lars Reichwein, Zheng Gong, Chuan Zheng +3

Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering, e.g. to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 4 cited

Spin-polarized He shock waves from a solid-gas composite target at high laser intensities

Lars Reichwein, Xiaofei Shen, Alexander Pukhov +1

We investigate Collisionless Shock Acceleration of spin-polarized He for laser pulses with normalized vector potentials in the range . The setup utilized in th…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 10 cited

On the robustness of spin polarization for magnetic vortex accelerated proton bunches in density down-ramps

Lars Reichwein, Anna Hützen, Markus Büscher +1

We investigate the effect of density down-ramps on the acceleration of ions via Magnetic Vortex Acceleration (MVA) in a near-critical density gas target by means of particle-in-cel…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 54 cited

Polarized electron-beam acceleration driven by vortex laser pulses

Yitong Wu, Liangliang Ji, Xuesong Geng +15

We propose a new approach based on an all-optical set-up for generating relativistic polarized electron beams via vortex Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser-driven wakefield acceleration.…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 30 cited

Polarized Proton Beams from Laser-induced Plasmas

Anna Hützen, Johannes Thomas, Jürgen Böker +7

We report on the concept of an innovative source to produce polarized proton/deuteron beams of a kinetic energy up to several GeV from a laser-driven plasma accelerator. Spin effec…