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Beam Delivery and Beamstrahlung Considerations for Ultra-High Energy Linear Colliders
Tim Barklow, Spencer Gessner, Mark Hogan +27
As part of the Snowmass'21 community planning excercise, the Advanced Accelerator Concepts (AAC) community proposed future linear colliders with center-of-mass energies up to 15 Te…
From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale
Axel Huebl, Remi Lehe, Edoardo Zoni +21
Developing complex, reliable advanced accelerators requires a coordinated, extensible, and comprehensive approach in modeling, from source to the end of beam lifetime. We present h…
Light-Matter Interaction Near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers
Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli +4
The Schwinger limit could be approached by focusing to its diffraction limit the light reflected by a plasma mirror irradiated by a multi-petawatt laser. We explore numerically the…
Quantum vacuum processes in the extremely intense light of relativistic plasma mirror sources
Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli, Neïl Zaïm +2
The advent of Petawatt-class laser systems allows generating electro-magnetic fields of unprecedented strength in a controlled environment, driving increasingly more efforts to pro…
PICSAR-QED: a Monte Carlo module to simulate Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics in Particle-In-Cell codes for exascale architectures
Luca Fedeli, Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie +5
Physical scenarios where the electromagnetic fields are so strong that Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) plays a substantial role are one of the frontiers of contemporary plasma physic…
Sub-laser-cycle control of relativistic plasma mirrors
Ludovic Chopineau, Guillaume Blaclard, Adrien Denoeud +2
We present measurements of high-order harmonics and relativistic electrons emitted into the vacuum from a plasma mirror driven by temporally-shaped ultra-intense laser waveforms, p…
A Hybrid Nodal-Staggered Pseudo-Spectral Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Method with Finite-Order Centering
Edoardo Zoni, Remi Lehe, Olga Shapoval +5
Electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are widely used to perform computer simulations of a variety of physical systems, including fusion plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, plas…
Porting WarpX to GPU-accelerated platforms
A. Myers, A. Almgren, L. D. Amorim +20
WarpX is a general purpose electromagnetic particle-in-cell code that was originally designed to run on many-core CPU architectures. We describe the strategy followed to allow Warp…
Plasma mirrors as a path to the Schwinger limit
L. Chopineau, A. Denoeud, A. Leblanc +4
Reaching light intensities above W/cm and up to the Schwinger limit ( W/cm) would enable testing decades-old fundamental predictions of Quantum Elect…
Interaction of ultraintense radially-polarized laser pulses with plasma mirrors
N. Zaïm, D. Guénot, L. Chopineau +5
We present experimental results of vacuum laser acceleration (VLA) of electrons using radially polarized laser pulses interacting with a plasma mirror. Tightly focused radially pol…
How to generate intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic plasma mirrors?
H. Kallala, F. Quéré, H. Vincenti
Doppler harmonic generation of a high-power laser on a relativistic plasma mirror is a promising path to produce bright attosecond light bursts. Yet, a major challenge has been to…
A generalized massively parallel ultra-high order FFT-based Maxwell solver
Haithem Kallala, Jean-Luc Vay, Henri Vincenti
Dispersion-free ultra-high order FFT-based Maxwell solvers have recently proven to be paramount to a large range of applications, including the high-fidelity modeling of high-inten…
Achieving extreme light intensities using relativistic plasma mirrors
Henri Vincenti
In this letter, cutting-edge 3D Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to demonstrate that so-called relativistic plasma mirrors irradiated by PetaWatt (PW) lasers and naturally cur…
Identification of coupling mechanisms between ultraintense laser light and dense plasmas
L. Chopineau, A. Leblanc, G. Blaclard +7
The interaction of intense laser beams with plasmas created on solid targets involves a rich non-linear physics. Because such dense plasmas are reflective for laser light, the coup…
On the physics of electron ejection from laser-irradiated overdense plasmas
Maxence Thévenet, Henri Vincenti, Jérôme Faure
Using 1D and 2D PIC simulations, we describe and model the backward ejection of electron bunches when a laser pulse reflects off an overdense plasma with a sharp density gradient o…
Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas
Henri Vincenti, Jean-Luc Vay
The advent of massively parallel supercomputers, with their distributed-memory technology using many processing units, has favored the development of highly-scalable local low-orde…
Accurate modeling of plasma acceleration with arbitrary order pseudo-spectral particle-in-cell methods
Sören Jalas, Irene Dornmair, Rémi Lehe +4
Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations are a widely used tool for the investigation of both laser- and beam-driven plasma acceleration. It is a known issue that the beam quality can be…
Pseudo-spectral Maxwell solvers for an accurate modeling of Doppler harmonic generation on plasma mirrors with Particle-In-Cell codes
G. Blaclard, H. Vincenti, R. Lehe +1
With the advent of PW class lasers, the very large laser intensities attainable on-target should enable the production of intense high order Doppler harmonics from relativistic las…
An efficient and portable SIMD algorithm for charge/current deposition in Particle-In-Cell codes
H. Vincenti, R. Lehe, R. Sasanka +1
In current computer architectures, data movement (from die to network) is by far the most energy consuming part of an algorithm (10pJ/word on-die to 10,000pJ/word on the network).…
Vacuum laser acceleration of relativistic electrons using plasma mirror injectors
M. Thévenet, A. Leblanc, S. Kahaly +4
Accelerating particles to relativistic energies over very short distances using lasers has been a long standing goal in physics. Among the various schemes proposed for electrons, v…
Detailed analysis of the effects of stencil spatial variations with arbitrary high-order finite-difference Maxwell solver
H. Vincenti, J-L. Vay
Due to discretization effects and truncation to finite domains, many electromagnetic simulations present non-physical modifications of Maxwell's equations in space that may generat…
Optical Properties of Relativistic Plasma Mirrors
H. Vincenti, S. Monchocé, S. Kahaly +2
The advent of ultrahigh-power femtosecond lasers creates a need for optical components suitable to handle ultrahigh light intensities. Due to the unavoidable laser-induced ionizati…
Attosecond Lighthouses
H. Vincenti, F. Quéré
Coherent light beams composed of ultrashort pulses are now increasingly used in different fields of Science, from time-resolved spectroscopy to plasma physics. Under the effect of…