5 papers
Counter-streaming heat-flux closure for electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection
Madox C. McGrae-Menge, Jacob R. Pierce, Maria Almanza +6
In electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection (MR), a regime of growing importance in turbulent space plasmas, electrons develop strongly non-Maxwellian distributions that i…
Damping dynamics of the centroid oscillation of a relativistic laser pulse in a plasma channel
Yuhui Xia, Zhenan Wang, Ziyao Tang +10
The centroid oscillation of an offset laser pulse propagating in a preformed plasma channel is investigated through theoretical analysis and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simu…
Collider-quality electron bunches from an all-optical plasma photoinjector
Arohi Jain, Jiayang Yan, Jacob R. Pierce +11
We present a novel approach for generating collider-quality electron bunches using a plasma photoinjector. The approach leverages recently developed techniques for the spatiotempor…
Laser Wakefield Acceleration Driven by a Discrete Flying Focus
Jacob R. Pierce, Kyle G. Miller, Fei Li +2
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) may enable the next generation of TeV-scale lepton colliders. Reaching such energies will likely require multiple LWFA stages to overcome limita…
Photon acceleration of high-intensity vector vortex beams into the extreme ultraviolet
Kyle G. Miller, Jacob R. Pierce, Fei Li +4
Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light sources allow for the probing of bound electron dynamics on attosecond scales, interrogation of high-energy-density matter, and access to novel regi…