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Generation of antimatter via the multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process in an all-optical scheme will be made possible on forthcoming high-power laser facilities through the collision of wakefield-accelerated GeV electrons with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Mathieu Lobet , Xavier Davoine , Emmanuel d'Humières , Laurent Gremillet

We report enhanced broadband Terahertz (THz) generation and detailed characterization from the interaction of femtosecond two colour laser pulses with thin transparent dielectric tape target in ambient air. The proposed source is easy to…

Surface acceleration of fast electrons in intense laser-plasma interaction is improved by using sub-wavelength grating targets. The fast electron beam emitted along the target surface was enhanced by more than three times relative to that…

We investigate the chargino production process $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\tilde{W}^{+}\tilde{W}^{-}$ at high energy $\gamma\gamma$ colliders in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Here the high energy $\gamma$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Masayuki Koike , Toshihiko Nonaka , Tadashi Kon

Inclusive and exclusive hard-photon (E$_\gamma >$ 30 MeV) production in five different heavy-ion reactions ($^{36}$Ar+$^{197}$Au, $^{107}$Ag, $^{58}$Ni, $^{12}$C at 60{\it A} MeV and $^{129}$Xe+$^{120}$Sn at 50{\it A} MeV) has been studied…

A method for the generation of ultrarelativistic electron beams with high spin polarization is put forward, where a tightly-focused linearly-polarized ultraintense laser pulse interacts with a nonprepolarized transverse-size-tailored solid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Shen , Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

High laser intensities enable the production of electron-positron pairs from bright gamma rays passing through strong fields. Potentially the most promising approach for all-optical experiments in the near term uses dense but higher…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Christopher Arran , Stuart Morris , Christopher P. Ridgers

The collision of ultrashort high-density $e^-$ or $e^-$ and $e^+$ beams at 10s of GeV, to be available at the FACET II and in laser wakefield accelerator experiments, can produce highly collimated $\gamma$ rays (few GeVs) with peak…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 F. Del Gaudio , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , W. B. Mori , L. O. Silva

The generation of collimated, high brilliance $\gamma$-ray beams from a structured plasma channel target is studied by means of 2D PIC simulations. Simulation results reveal an optimum laser pulse pulse duration of $20\,\text{fs}$, for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Christian Heppe , Naveen Kumar

The interaction of atomic clusters with short, intense pulses of laser light to form extremely hot, dense plasmas has attracted extensive experimental and theoretical interest. The high density of atoms within the cluster greatly enhances…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zachary B. Walters , Robin Santra , Chris H. Greene

The ability of an intense laser pulse to propagate in a classically over-critical plasma through the phenomenon of relativistic transparency is shown to facilitate the generation of strong plasma magnetic fields. Particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Oliver Jansen , Tao Wang , David Stark , Toma Toncian , Alexey Arefiev

Within thunderstorms electrons can gain energies of up to hundred(s) of MeV. These electrons can create X-rays and gamma-rays as Bremsstrahlung when they collide with air molecules. Here we calculate the distribution of angles between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Christoph Köhn , Ute Ebert

The impact of a laser field on the process of photon radiation by an ultra-relativistic electron in an atomic field is investigated. The angular distribution and the spectrum of the radiated photon are derived. By means of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-07 P. A. Krachkov , A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein

We investigated plasma heating enhancement using a high-intensity, high-contrast laser and a cone-attached target. Fast electron spectra and X-ray emission were measured with an electron spectrometer and a Bragg crystal spectrometer. The…

The interaction of a high-power laser with a solid target provides ways to produce beams of $\gamma$-photons. For normal incidence of the laser on the target the beams usually appear in a form of two lobes, which are symmetric with respect…

Using quantum electrodynamics particle-in-cell simulations, we optimize the gamma flare ($\gamma$-flare) generation scheme from interaction of high power petawatt-class laser pulse with tailored cryogenic hydrogen target having extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 K. V. Lezhnin , P. Sasorov , G. Korn , S. V. Bulanov

We observe near 100 % absorption of light in intense ultrashort laser plasma interaction in a metal coated (Au on glass) sub-lambda grating structure under suitable conditions and the subsequent 'hot' electron generation from the grating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 Subhendu Kahaly , G. Ravindra Kumar

Micro and nano structures scatter light and amplify local electric fields very effectively. Energy incident as intense ultrashort laser pulses can be converted to x-rays and hot electrons more efficiently with a substrate that suitably…

We calculate numerically the emissivity and surface flux of electron-electron bremsstrahlung radiation from the surface of a bare quark star. The restricted electronic phase space due to the presence of an effective photon mass results in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 Jean-François Caron , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

The bremsstrahlung produced when heavy nuclei collide is estimated for central collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Bremsstrahlung photons with energies below 100 to 200 MeV are sufficient to discern the gross features of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. I. Kapusta , S. M. H. Wong