3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration in a plasma waveguide
J. P. Palastro, K. G. Miller, C. D. Arrowsmith +10
Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) provide extremely large accelerating gradients for compact electron accelerators and photon sources but are limited by dephasing, where trapped…
physics.plasm-ph2026
Differentiable Programming for Plasma Physics: From Diagnostics to Discovery and Design
A. S. Joglekar, A. G. R. Thomas, A. L. Milder +3
Differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation (AD), provides a robust framework for gradient-based optimization in computational plasma physics. While optimizati…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Arbitrary-velocity laser pulses in plasma waveguides
J. P. Palastro, K. G. Miller, M. R. Edwards +4
Space-time structured laser pulses feature an intensity peak that can travel at an arbitrary velocity while maintaining a near-constant profile. These pulses can propagate in unifo…