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20222026
most citedProbing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions

14 citations · 17 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Quasistatic modeling of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities

P. San Miguel Claveria, L. Gremillet, X. Davoine +5

Relativistic particle beams propagating through dense ambient plasmas are susceptible to streaming instabilities that can govern the system dynamics in various astrophysical and la…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Modeling ultrarelativistic streaming plasma instabilities under the quasistatic approximation

P. San Miguel Claveria, Q. Labro, X. Davoine +5

Plasma streaming instabilities excited by relativistic charged particle beams play a pivotal role in astrophysical and laboratory environments. Their numerical study, however, is c…

physics.acc-ph2026

Strong-field focusing of high-energy particles in beam-multifoil collisions

Aimé Matheron, Doug Storey, Max F. Gilljohann +25

Extreme beams of charged particles and photons, reaching ultrahigh densities or producing intense gamma-ray bursts, are central to accelerator physics, laboratory astrophysics, and…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Simulating vacuum birefringence with a diffractive beam propagation code

Aimé Matheron, Michal Šmíd, Matt Zepf +1

Ninety years after their prediction, quantum vacuum nonlinearities in macroscopic electromagnetic fields still await a direct experimental verification in the laboratory. A particu…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Decoupling acceleration and wiggling in a laser-produced Betatron source

Julien Gautier, Igor Andriyash, Andreas Döpp +11

Betatron radiation is produced in Laser Plasma Accelerators when the electrons are accelerated and simultaneously wiggle across the propagation axis. The mechanisms of electron acc…

hep-ex2025

The Darkfield Approach to Measuring Vacuum Birefringence and Light-by-Light Couplings -- A Proof-of-Principle Experiment

Michal Smíd, Pooyan Khademi, Carsten Bähtz +29

Vacuum fluctuations give rise to effective nonlinear interactions between electromagnetic fields. These generically modify the characteristics of light traversing a strong-field re…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 1 cited

Compton photons at the GeV scale from self-aligned collisions with a plasma mirror

Aimé Matheron, Jean-Raphaël Marquès, Vincent Lelasseux +34

With today's multi-petawatt lasers, testing quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the strong field regime, where the electric field exceeds the Schwinger critical field in the rest fram…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Self-triggered strong-field QED collisions in laser-plasma interaction

Aimé Matheron, Igor Andriyash, Xavier Davoine +6

Exploring quantum electrodynamics in the most extreme conditions, where electron-positron pairs can emerge in the presence of a strong background field, is now becoming possible in…

physics.acc-ph2023

Wakefield Generation in Hydrogen and Lithium Plasmas at FACET-II: Diagnostics and First Beam-Plasma Interaction Results

D. Storey, C. Zhang, P. San Miguel Claveria +28

Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) provides ultrahigh acceleration gradients of 10s of GeV/m, providing a novel path towards efficient, compact, TeV-scale linear colliders and hi…

physics.acc-ph2023

Commissioning and first measurements of the initial X-ray and γ-ray detectors at FACET-II

P. San Miguel Claveria, D. Storey, G. J. Cao +21

The upgraded Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been designed to deliver ultra-relativistic electron and po…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 14 cited

Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions

A. Matheron, P. San Miguel Claveria, R. Ariniello +21

Ongoing progress in laser and accelerator technology opens new possibilities in high-field science, notably to investigate the largely unexplored strong-field quantum electrodynami…

physics.acc-ph2022

Channeling Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures and Studies of Solid Plasmas: New Opportunities

Max F. Gilljohann, Yuliia Mankovska, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +16

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has shown illustrious progress and resulted in an impressive demonstration of tens of GeV particle acceleration in meter-long single structures…