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A classical model of radiation reaction for the betatron oscillation of an electron in a plasma wakefield accelerator is presented. The maximum energy of the electron due to the longitudinal radiation reaction is found, and the betatron…

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The tremendous progress in high-intensity laser technology and the establishment of dedicated high-field laboratories in recent years have paved the way towards a first observation of quantum vacuum nonlinearities at the high-intensity…

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The interaction of multipetawatt lasers with plasma is a complex multiparameter problem, providing a wide field for fundamental research and opening up great opportunities for creating unique sources of high-energy electrons and positrons,…

The influence of radiation reaction (RR) on multiphoton Thomson scattering by an electron colliding head-on with a strong laser beam is investigated in a new regime, in which the momentum transferred on average to the electron by the laser…

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Signatures of strong-field quantum electrodynamics are determined for collisions between round ultrarelativistic leptonic beams in the quantum limit of beamstrahlung. In the low disruption regime, we derive the integrated beamstrahlung…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , L. O. Silva

The optimal parameters for nuclear excitation by electron capture in plasma environments generated by the interaction of ultra-strong optical lasers with solid matter are investigated theoretically. As a case study we consider a 4.85 keV…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yuanbin Wu , Jonas Gunst , Christoph H. Keitel , Adriana Pálffy

A highly intense femtosecond laser pulse incident on a plasma target of supercritical density, gives rise to reflected high-order harmonics of the laser frequency. The radiation model adopted here considers Brunel electrons -those…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Ondarza-Rovira , T. J. M. Boyd

We use Bayesian optimization in combination with three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to determine the optimal laser and plasma parameters that, for a given laser pulse energy, maximize the cut-off energy of an electron beam…

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New particle acceleration schemes open up exciting opportunities, potentially providing more compact or higher-energy accelerators. The AWAKE experiment at CERN is currently taking data to establish the method of proton-driven plasma…

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With the aid of large-scale three-dimensional QED-PIC simulations, we describe a realistic experimental configuration to measure collective effects that couple strong field quantum electrodynamics to plasma kinetics. For two counter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Peng Zhang , A. G. R. Thomas , C. P. Ridgers

We report on experimental spectra of photons radiated by 50 GeV positrons crossing silicon single crystals of thicknesses 1.1 mm, 2.0 mm, 4.2 mm, and 6.2 mm at sufficiently small angles to the (110) planes that their motion effectively is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 T. N. Wistisen , A. Di Piazza , C. F. Nielsen , A. H. Sørensen , U. I. Uggerhøj

A photon collider luminosity and its energy are determined by the parameters of an electron-electron linear collider (energy, power, beam emittances) and collision effects. The main collision effect is the coherent e+e- pair creation. At…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Valery Telnov

The vast majority of QED results are obtained in relatively weak fields and so in the framework of perturbation theory. However, forthcoming laser facilities providing extremely high fields can be used to enter not-yet-studied regimes.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 C. Baumann , E. N. Nerush , A. Pukhov , I. Yu. Kostyukov

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…

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Ultrarelativistic collisions of large nuclei produce a short-lived plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons. Of all the GeV-energy photons detected in these nuclear collisions, only a small number are emitted directly by the quark-gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-26 Jean-François Paquet , Steffen A. Bass

Ultra-strong laser pulses can be so intense that an electron in the focused beam loses significant energy due to gamma-photon emission while its motion deviates via the radiation back-reaction. Numerical methods and tools designed to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees

The colliding between ultra-relativistic electrons and an ultra-intense laser pulse is a powerful approach to testify the physics in strong-field QED regime. By considering spin-dependent radiation-reaction during laser-electron collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Q. Han , C. Y. Qin , N. W. Wang , W. Q. Wang , Y. T. Wu , X. Yan , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

The effects of radiation reaction (RR) have been studied extensively by using the ultraintense laser interacts with the counter-propagating relativistic electron. At the laser intensity at the order of $10^{23}$ W/cm$^2$, the effects of RR…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 J. F. Ong , T. Moritaka , H. Takabe

Near-future experiments with Petawatt class lasers are expected to produce a high flux of gamma-ray photons and electron-positron pairs through Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamical processes. Simulations of the expected regime of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Óscar Amaro , Lucas I. Iñigo Gamiz , Marija Vranic

We show that if the laser is intense enough, it may always ionize an atom or induce transitions between discrete energy levels of the atom, no matter what is its frequency. It means in the quantum transition of an atom interacting with an…

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