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We investigate the process of creating electron-positron pairs from laser-matter interaction in pre-ionised foam targets using particle-in-cell simulations. A high-intensity laser pulse drives electrons via direct laser acceleration up to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Oliver Mathiak , Lars Reichwein , Alexander Pukhov

Extreme laser pulses driving non-equilibrium processes in high density plasmas permit an increase of the fusion of hydrogen with the boron isotope 11 by nine orders of magnitude of the energy gains above the classical values. This is the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 H. Hora , S. Eliezer , G. J. Kirchhoff , G. Korn , P. Lalousis , G. H. Miley , S. Moustaizis

The laser interaction with an electron-positron-ion mixed plasma is studied, from the perspective of the associated high-order harmonic generation. For an idealized mixed plasma which is assumed with a sharp plasma-vacuum interface and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , K. M. Schoeffler , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We show by explicit calculations that non-classical states of the radiation field can be produced by allowing short term interaction between a coherent state of the radiation field with plasma. Whereas, long term interaction, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Aabhaas Vineet Mallik , Pratyay Ghosh , Ananda Dasgupta

A model for laser light absorption in electron-positron plasmas self-consistently created via QED cascades is described. The laser energy is mainly absorbed due to hard photon emission via nonlinear Compton scattering. The degree of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Thomas Grismayer , Marija Vranic , Joana L. Martins , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

In this paper we study the polarization tensor of photons in a QED plasma in the presence of a magnetic field. We do it both at vanishing and at finite temperature. We use two different methods to compute the polarization tensor components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ulf H. Danielsson , Dario Grasso

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta

The dynamics and radiation of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong counterpropagating laser beams are investigated. Assuming that the particle energy is the dominant scale in the problem, an approximate solution of classical equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Q. Z. Lv , E. Raicher , C. H. Keitel , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan

In this study we explore the possibility of using the process of electron-positron pair creation in strong laser fields as a tool for measuring the intensity of the corresponding laser radiation. In the initial state we consider either free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. A. Andreev

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong laser facilities, limiting their accessibility and broad…

We demonstrate that electrons can be efficiently accelerated to high energy in spatially non-uniform, intense laser fields. Laser non-uniformities occur when a perfect plane wave reflects off a randomly perturbed surface. By solving for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Mark Sherlock

As an extension of the previous work [arXiv: 1512.02411], we have investigated the role of circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses while keeping other conditions the same. It is found that in the presence of large scale pre-formed plasmas,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 D. Wu , S. I. Krasheninnikov , S. X. Luan , W. Yu

A recent development in finite temperature field theory, the so-called Braaten-Pisarski method, and its application to properties of a quark-gluon plasma, possibly formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions, are reviewed. In particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Markus H. Thoma

The availability of ever stronger, laser-generated electromagnetic fields underpins continuing progress in the study and application of nonlinear phenomena in basic physical systems, ranging from molecules and atoms to relativistic plasmas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 M. Marklund , T. G. Blackburn , A. Gonoskov , J. Magnusson , S. S. Bulanov , A. Ilderton

The feasibility of obtaining exact analytical results in the realm of QED in the presence of a background electromagnetic field is almost exclusively limited to a few tractable cases, where the Dirac equation in the corresponding background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Di Piazza

The equilibrium size and temperature limits of thermally and chemically equilibrated $e^+e^-\gamma$ plasma drops are investigated at a given energy content. For a plasma to be equilibrated it must be opaque to electron and photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Inga Kuznetsova , Dieter Habs , Johann Rafelski

The necessity for compact table-top x-ray sources with higher brightness, shorter wavelength and shorter pulse duration has led to the development of complementary sources based on laser-plasma accelerators, in contrast to conventional…

Spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-reaction regime. We develop a Monte-Carlo method to model electron radiative spin effects in…

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and manipulate due to their short lifetime, and their energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 B. Martinez , B. Barbosa , M. Vranic

Using 2.5-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations, we study the kinetic physics of relativistic shear flow boundary in collisionless electron-positron (e+e-) plasmas. We find efficient magnetic field generation and particle energization at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Edison Liang , Markus Boettcher , Ian Smith