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The effect of the electron's spin magnetic moment on quantum radiation in strong electromagnetic fields
Louis A. Ingle, Christopher D. Arran, Matthew Oxley +4
Ultra-intense laser pulses can create sufficiently strong fields to probe quantum electrodynamics effects in a novel regime. By colliding a 60 GeV electron bunch with a laser pulse…
Analytical solutions for quantum radiation reaction in high-intensity lasers
T. G. Blackburn
While the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which describes classical radiation reaction, can be solved exactly and analytically for a charged particle accelerated by a plane electromagnet…
Technical Design Report for the LUXE Experiment
H. Abramowicz, M. Almanza Soto, M. Altarelli +131
This Technical Design Report presents a detailed description of all aspects of the LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that will combine the high-quality and high-energ…
Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses
B. King, T. Heinzl, T. G. Blackburn
By combining an adiabatic approach based on a `locally monochromatic' approximation with a local Hilbert transform, it is demonstrated how vacuum birefringence in the strong field…
Effect of electron-beam energy chirp on signatures of radiation reaction in laser-based experiments
J. Magnusson, T. G. Blackburn, E. Gerstmayr +4
Current experiments investigating radiation reaction employ high energy electron beams together with tightly focused laser pulses in order to reach the quantum regime, as expressed…
Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and -ray polarization
T. G. Blackburn, B. King, S. Tang
Accurate modelling is necessary to support precision experiments investigating strong-field QED phenomena. This modelling is particularly challenging in the transition between the…
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…
Mapping the power-law decay of high-harmonic spectra from laser-plasma interactions
Shikha Bhadoria, Thomas Blackburn, Arkady Gonoskov +1
Visible or near infra-red light can be manipulated to produce bursts of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) or X-rays via the relativistic high-order harmonic generation process whe…
Higher fidelity simulations of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair creation in intense laser pulses
T. G. Blackburn, B. King
When a photon collides with a laser pulse, an electron-positron pair can be produced via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. A simulation framework has been developed to calculate…
LUXE-NPOD: new physics searches with an optical dump at LUXE
Zhaoyu Bai, Thomas Blackburn, Oleksandr Borysov +8
We propose a novel way to search for feebly interacting massive particles, exploiting two properties of systems involving collisions between high energy electrons and intense laser…
Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields
A. Gonoskov, T. G. Blackburn, M. Marklund +1
The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of s…
From local to nonlocal: higher fidelity simulations of photon emission in intense laser pulses
T. G. Blackburn, A. J. MacLeod, B. King
State-of-the-art numerical simulations of quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in strong laser fields rely on a semiclassical combination of classical equations of motion and Q…
Dominance of - electron-positron pair creation in a plasma driven by high-intensity lasers
Y. He, T. G. Blackburn, T. Toncian +1
Creation of electrons and positrons from light alone is a basic prediction of quantum electrodynamics, but yet to be observed. Here we show that it is possible to create …
Optimized computation of tight focusing of short pulses using mapping to periodic space
Elena Panova, Valentin Volokitin, Evgeny Efimenko +9
When a pulsed, few-cycle electromagnetic wave is focused by optics with f-number smaller than two, the frequency components it contains are focused to different regions of space, b…
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…
Model-independent inference of laser intensity
T. G. Blackburn, E. Gerstmayr, S. P. D. Mangles +1
An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here we show th…
Radiation reaction in electron-beam interactions with high-intensity lasers
T. G. Blackburn
Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this reco…
Radiation beaming in the quantum regime
T. G. Blackburn, D. Seipt, S. S. Bulanov +1
Classical theories of radiation reaction predict that the electron motion is confined to the plane defined by the electron's instantaneous momentum and the force exerted by the ext…
Optimal Parameters for Radiation Reaction Experiments
Christopher Arran, Jason M. Cole, Elias Gerstmayr +3
As new laser facilities are developed with intensities on the scale of 10^22 - 10^24 W cm^-2 , it becomes ever more important to understand the effect of strong field quantum elect…
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…
Benchmarking semiclassical approaches to strong-field QED: nonlinear Compton scattering in intense laser pulses
T. G. Blackburn, D. Seipt, S. S. Bulanov +1
The recoil associated with photon emission is key to the dynamics of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong electromagnetic fields, as are found in high-intensity laser-matter inter…
Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair creation with bremsstrahlung rays
T. G. Blackburn, M. Marklund
Electron-positron pairs are produced through the Breit-Wheeler process when energetic photons traverse electromagnetic fields of sufficient strength. Here we consider a possible ex…
Scaling laws for positron production in laser--electron-beam collisions
T. G. Blackburn, A. Ilderton, C. D. Murphy +1
Showers of -rays and positrons are produced when a high-energy electron beam collides with a super-intense laser pulse. We present scaling laws for the electron beam energy loss…