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Report on the Advanced Linear Collider Study Group (ALEGRO) Workshop 2026
L. Verra, P. Muggli, B. Cross +56
The 7th ALEGRO workshop, hosted by INFN Frascati National Laboratories from 3rd to 5th March 2026, brought together the international Advanced Novel Accelerators (ANA) community to…
The Influence of Laser Focusing Conditions on the Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons
H. Tang, K. Tangtartharakul, R. Babjak +12
Direct Laser Acceleration (DLA) of electrons during a high-energy, picosecond laser interaction with an underdense plasma has been demonstrated to be substantially enhanced by cont…
Multiplicity of electron- and photon-seeded electromagnetic showers at multi-petawatt laser facilities
M. Pouyez, A. A. Mironov, T. Grismayer +5
Electromagnetic showers developing from the collision of an ultra-intense laser pulse with a beam of high-energy electrons or photons are investigated under conditions relevant to…
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…
Magnetic field generation in laser-solid interactions at strong-field QED relevant intensities
Brandon K. Russell, Marija Vranic, Paul T. Campbell +4
Magnetic field generation in ultra-intense laser-solid interactions is studied over a range of laser intensities relevant to next-generation laser facilities () using…
Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process into a plasma channel
Dominika Maslarova, Bertrand Martinez, Marija Vranic
Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-TeV electron-positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for…
QScatter: Numerical Framework for Fast Prediction of Particle Distributions in Electron-Laser Scattering
Óscar Amaro, Marija Vranic
The new generation of multi-PetaWatt laser facilities will allow tests of Strong Field QED, as well as provide an opportunity for novel photon and lepton sources. The first experim…
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…
Parametric study of the polarization dependence of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair creation process using two laser pulses
Qian Qian, Daniel Seipt, Marija Vranic +4
With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interac…
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…
Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches
R. Babjak, L. Willingale, A. Arefiev +1
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide 100s of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available lasers. Here w…
Charged particle beam transport in a flying focus pulse with orbital angular momentum
Martin Formanek, John P. Palastro, Marija Vranic +2
We demonstrate the capability of Flying Focus (FF) laser pulses with orbital angular momentum (OAM) to transversely confine ultra-relativistic charged particle bunches o…
Exact solutions for the electromagnetic fields of a flying focus
D. Ramsey, A. Di Piazza, M. Formanek +10
The intensity peak of a "flying focus" travels at a programmable velocity over many Rayleigh ranges while maintaining a near-constant profile. Assessing the extent to which these f…
Optimal laser focusing for positron production in laser-electron scattering
Óscar Amaro, Marija Vranic
Laser-electron beam collisions that aim to generate electron-positron pairs require laser intensities , which can be obtained by focusing a 1-PW…
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition
E. Boella, R. Bingham, R. A. Cairns +6
Two-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to explore collisionless shock acceleration in the corona plasma surrounding the compressed core of an inertial confinement fu…
Scaling laws for direct laser acceleration in a radiation-reaction dominated regime
M. Jirka, M. Vranic, T. Grismayer +1
We study electron acceleration within a sub-critical plasma channel irradiated by an ultra-intense laser pulse ( or ). In this regime, radiation…
Accurately simulating nine-dimensional phase space of relativistic particles in strong fields
Fei Li, Viktor K. Decyk, Kyle G. Miller +5
Next-generation high-power lasers that can be focused to intensities exceeding 10^23 W/cm^2 are enabling new physics and applications. The physics of how these lasers interact with…
Suitability and robustness of triangular nanostructured targets for proton acceleration
Manuel Blanco, M. T. Flores-Arias, Marija Vranic
Ion acceleration in the MeV range can be routinely achieved with table-top laser technology. One of the current challenges is to improve the energy coupling from the laser to the p…
Extremely intense laser-based electron acceleration in a plasma channel
Marija Vranic, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Luis O. Silva
Laser pulses of extreme intensities () are about to become available in the laboratory. The prepulse of such a laser can induce a plasma expansion that…
Are we ready to transfer optical light to gamma-rays?
Marija Vranic, Thomas Grismayer, Sebastian Meuren +2
Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing -rays. This is what linear Compton sca…
Multi-GeV electron-positron beam generation from laser-electron scattering
Marija Vranic, Ondrej Klimo, Georg Korn +1
The new generation of laser facilities is expected to deliver short (10 fs - 100 fs) laser pulses with 10 - 100 PW of peak power. This opens an opportunity to study matter at extre…
Collimated protons accelerated from an overdense gas jet irradiated by a 1 micron wavelength high-intensity short-pulse laser
S. N. Chen, M. Vranic, T. Gangolf +13
We have investigated proton acceleration in the forward direction from a near-critical density hydrogen gas jet target irradiated by a high intensity (10^18 W/cm^2), short-pulse (5…
Table-top laser-based proton acceleration in nanostructured targets
M. Blanco, M. T. Flores-Arias, C. Ruiz +1
The interaction of ultrashort, high intensity laser pulses with thin foil targets leads to ion acceleration on the target rear surface. To make this ion source useful for applicati…
Electron - positron cascades in multiple-laser optical traps
Marija Vranic, Thomas Grismayer, Ricardo A. Fonseca +1
We present an analytical and numerical study of multiple-laser QED cascades induced with linearly polarised laser pulses. We analyse different polarisation orientations and propose…