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20152026
most citedA spectral, quasi-cylindrical and dispersion-free Particle-In-Cell algorithm

326 citations · 660 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.acc-ph2026

Radiation safety challenges in plasma accelerators

S. Bohlen, M. Kirchen, T. Liang +9

Plasma accelerators are rapidly evolving toward user-relevant machines with increasing repetition rates, particle energies and average beam powers. Despite their compact size, the…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 3 cited

Programmable Focal Elongation and Shaping of High-Intensity Laser Pulses using Adaptive Optics

P. Blum, A. Puchert, E. Archer +7

Controlling the intensity distribution of laser pulses in the focal region is essential for optimizing optically generated plasma waveguides and enabling advanced plasma accelerati…

physics.acc-ph2024

Controlled Injection in a Laser Plasma Accelerator via an Optically Generated Waveguide Constriction

R. J. Shalloo, A. Ferran Pousa, M. Mewes +6

We propose a novel scheme for controlling the injection of a high-quality electron bunch into a channel-guided laser plasma accelerator. This all-optical technique, constricted wav…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Report on the Advanced Linear Collider Study Group (ALEGRO) Workshop 2024

J. Vieira, B. Cros, P. Muggli +40

The workshop focused on the application of ANAs to particle physics keeping in mind the ultimate goal of a collider at the energy frontier (10\,TeV, e/e, e/e, or $γ…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

LASY: LAser manipulations made eaSY

Maxence Thévenet, Igor A. Andriyash, Luca Fedeli +8

Using realistic laser profiles for simulations of laser-plasma interaction is critical to reproduce experimental measurements, but the interface between experiments and simulations…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 32 cited

Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma accelerators assisted by reduced physical models

A. Ferran Pousa, S. Jalas, M. Kirchen +7

Particle-in-cell simulations are among the most essential tools for the modeling and optimization of laser-plasma accelerators, since they reproduce the physics from first principl…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 85 cited

2022 Review of Data-Driven Plasma Science

Rushil Anirudh, Rick Archibald, M. Salman Asif +60

Data science and technology offer transformative tools and methods to science. This review article highlights latest development and progress in the interdisciplinary field of data…

physics.acc-ph2021

Design of a prototype laser-plasma injector for the DESY-II synchrotron

S. A. Antipov, A. Ferran Pousa, I. Agapov +10

The present state of progress in laser wakefield acceleration encourages considering it as a practical alternative to conventional particle accelerators. A promising application wo…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 1 cited

Developing a 50 MeV LPA-based Injector at ATHENA for a Compact Storage Ring

E. Panofski, C. Braun, J. Dirkwinkel +22

The laser-driven generation of relativistic electron beams in plasma and their acceleration to high energies with GV/m-gradients has been successfully demonstrated. Now, it is time…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 18 cited

Energy Compression and Stabilization of Laser-Plasma Accelerators

A. Ferran Pousa, I. Agapov, S. A. Antipov +9

Laser-plasma accelerators outperform current radiofrequency technology in acceleration strength by orders of magnitude. Yet, enabling them to deliver competitive beam quality for d…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 39 cited

LUX -- A Laser-Plasma Driven Undulator Beamline

N. Delbos, C. Werle, I. Dornmair +12

The LUX beamline is a novel type of laser-plasma accelerator. Building on the joint expertise of the University of Hamburg and DESY the beamline was carefully designed to combine s…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 42 cited

Accurate modeling of plasma acceleration with arbitrary order pseudo-spectral particle-in-cell methods

Sören Jalas, Irene Dornmair, Rémi Lehe +4

Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations are a widely used tool for the investigation of both laser- and beam-driven plasma acceleration. It is a known issue that the beam quality can be…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 46 cited

Elimination of Numerical Cherenkov Instability in flowing-plasma Particle-In-Cell simulations by using Galilean coordinates

Remi Lehe, Manuel Kirchen, Brendan B. Godfrey +2

Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations of relativistic flowing plasmas are of key interest to several fields of physics (including e.g. laser-wakefield acceleration, when viewed in a L…

physics.plasm-ph2016★ 34 cited

Stable discrete representation of relativistically drifting plasmas

Manuel Kirchen, Remi Lehe, Brendan B. Godfrey +5

Representing the electrodynamics of relativistically drifting particle ensembles in discrete, co-propagating Galilean coordinates enables the derivation of a Particle-in-Cell algor…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 32 cited

Chirp mitigation of plasma-accelerated beams using a modulated plasma density

R. Brinkmann, N. Delbos, I. Dornmair +13

Plasma-based accelerators offer the possibility to drive future compact light sources and high-energy physics applications. Achieving good beam quality, especially a small beam ene…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 326 cited

A spectral, quasi-cylindrical and dispersion-free Particle-In-Cell algorithm

Remi Lehe, Manuel Kirchen, Igor A. Andriyash +2

We propose a spectral Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm that is based on the combination of a Hankel transform and a Fourier transform. For physical problems that have close-to-cyli…