7 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…
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…
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…
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…
Spatiotemporal control of high-intensity laser pulses with a plasma lens
D. Li, K. G. Miller, J. R. Pierce +3
Spatiotemporal control encompasses a variety of techniques for producing laser pulses with dynamic intensity peaks that move independently of the group velocity. This controlled mo…
Analytic pulse technique for computational electromagnetics
K. Weichman, K. G. Miller, B. Malaca +6
Numerical modeling of electromagnetic waves is an important tool for understanding the interaction of light and matter, and lies at the core of computational electromagnetics. Trad…