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Towards critical and supercritical electromagnetic fields
M. Marklund, T. G. Blackburn, A. Gonoskov +3
The availability of ever stronger, laser-generated electromagnetic fields underpins continuing progress in the study and application of nonlinear phenomena in basic physical system…
Self-absorption of synchrotron radiation in a laser-irradiated plasma
T. G. Blackburn, A. J. MacLeod, A. Ilderton +3
Electrons at the surface of a plasma that is irradiated by a laser with intensity in excess of are accelerated so strongly that they emit burst…
One-photon pair-annihilation in pulsed plane-wave backgrounds
S. Tang, A. Ilderton, B. King
We study the process of electron-positron pair annihilation to a single photon in a plane-wave background. The probability of the process in a pulsed plane wave is…
Reaching supercritical field strengths with intense lasers
T. G. Blackburn, A. Ilderton, M. Marklund +1
It is conjectured that all perturbative approaches to quantum electrodynamics (QED) break down in the collision of a high-energy electron beam with an intense laser, when the laser…
Realising Single-Shot Measurements of Quantum Radiation Reaction in High-Intensity Lasers
C. D. Baird, C. D. Murphy, T. G. Blackburn +4
Collisions between high intensity laser pulses and energetic electron beams are now used to measure the transition between the classical and quantum regimes of light-matter interac…
Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam
J. M. Cole, K. T. Behm, T. G. Blackburn +21
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration, known…
QED-driven laser absorption
M. C. Levy, T. G. Blackburn, N. Ratan +13
Absorption covers the physical processes which convert intense photon flux into energetic particles when a high-power laser illuminates optically-thick matter. It underpins importa…
Quantum quenching of radiation losses in short laser pulses
Chris Harvey, Arkady Gonoskov, Anton Ilderton +1
Accelerated charges radiate, and therefore must lose energy. The impact of this energy loss on particle motion, called radiation reaction, becomes significant in intense-laser matt…
Testing numerical implementations of strong field electrodynamics
C. N. Harvey, A. Ilderton, B. King
We test current numerical implementations of laser-matter interactions by comparison with exact analytical results. Focussing on photon emission processes, it is found that the num…
Detecting radiation reaction at moderate laser intensities
Thomas Heinzl, Chris Harvey, Anton Ilderton +6
We propose a new method of detecting radiation reaction effects in the motion of particles subjected to laser pulses of moderate intensity and long duration. The effect becomes siz…