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The hot and dense QCD matter produced in nuclear collisions at ultrarelativistic energy is characterized by very intense electromagnetic fields which attain their maximal strength in the early pre-equilibrium stage and interplay with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Lucia Oliva

We study the evolution of ultracold plasmas by measuring the electron temperature. Shortly after plasma formation, competition between heating and cooling mechanisms drives the electron temperature to a value within a narrow range…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Roberts , C. F. Fertig , M. L. Lim , S. L. Rolston

The invariant mass spectra of dileptons radiated from the fireballs formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions have been successfully used to investigate the properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Using a realistic model for the in-medium…

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Eduardo J. C. Dias , I. Madan , S. Gargiulo , F. Barantani , M. Yannai , G. M. Vanacore , I. Kaminer , F. Carbone , F. Javier García de Abajo

The interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with an underdense plasma is used in laser-plasma acceleration to create compact sources of ultrashort pulses of relativistic electrons and X-rays. The accelerating structure is a plasma wave,…

Numerical simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate the generation of axially polarized electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that radiate away energy with a characteristic frequency determined by the plasma frequency, in the THz range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Kathryn A. Wolfinger , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

It is generally believed that relativistically underdense plasma is transparent for intense laser radiation. However, particle-in-cell simulations reveal abnormal laser field absorption above the intensity threshold about~$3 \times…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 M. A. Serebryakov , A. S. Samsonov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

The dynamics of transient electric fields generated by the interaction of high intensity laser pulses with underdense plasmas has been studied experimentally with the proton projection imaging technique. The formation of a charged channel,…

Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron bunches and high brilliance X-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in the interaction with varying plasma density targets is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Robert Babjak , Bertrand Martinez , Miroslav Krus , Marija Vranic

A method to generate ultrahigh intense electromagnetic fields is suggested, based on the laser pulse compression, carrier frequency upshift and focusing by a counter-propagating breaking plasma wave, relativistic flying parabolic mirror.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Esirkepov , Toshiki Tajima

The paper is devoted to the prospects of using the laser radiation interaction with plasmas in the laboratory relativistic astrophysics context. We discuss the dimensionless parameters characterizing the processes in the laser and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , D. Habs , F. Pegoraro , T. Tajima

Interaction of ultera-short laser pulses with a dense cold plasma is investigated. Due to high density, of plasma, quantum effects such that Bohm potential and quantum pressure should be considered. The results reveal that electron density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Sepideh Dashtestani , Hamidreza Mohammadi

This study investigates the localized electron heating in a bulk overdense plasma. The method relies on using a time dependent magnetic field. An initially high external magnetic field imposed on the overdense plasma target enables the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Rohit Juneja , Trishul Dhalia , Amita Das

The interaction of two laser pulses in an underdense plasma has proven to be able to inject electrons in plasma waves, thus providing a stable and tunable source of electrons. Whereas previous works focused on the "beatwave" injection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 C. Rechatin , J. Faure , A. Lifschitz , X. Davoine , E. Lefebvre , V. Malka

We review the properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at finite temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ as created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The description of the strongly…

We use a boost-invariant one-dimensional (cylindrically symmetric) fluid dynamics code to calculate $e^+e^-$ production from $\rho^0$ and $\omega$ decay in the central rapidity region of a central S+Au collision at $\sqrt{s}=20$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John J. Neumann , David Seibert , George Fai

A theoretical model is developed for the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with solid targets on the basis of the two-temperature equation of state for an irradiated substance. It allows the description of the dynamics of the…

A new general expression is derived for nuclear electron capture rates within dense plasmas. Its qualitative nature leads us to question some widely accepted assumptions about how to calculate the effects of the plasma on the rates. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-04 R. F. Sawyer

The values of electrical conductivity of plasma of stars with a magnetic field or moving in the magnetic field of the other component in a binary system could be of significant interest, since they are useful for the study of thermal…

The dynamics of electrons in counter-propagating, circularly polarized laser beams are shown to exhibit attractors whose ability to trap particles depends on the ratio of the beam intensities and a single parameter describing radiation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 J. G. Kirk