Multi-scale simulation of intense laser plasma interactions

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London

Department Name: Physics

Abstract

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Funded Value:

£305,827

Funded Period:

Feb 10 - Jan 14

Funder:

EPSRC

Project Status:

Closed

Project Category:

Research Grant

Project Reference:

EP/G056803/1

Principal Investigator:

Roger Evans

Research Subject:

Info. & commun. Technol. (40%)

Plasma physics (20%)

Tools, technologies & methods (40%)

Research Topic:

High Performance Computing (40%)

Parallel Computing (40%)

Plasmas - Laser & Fusion (20%)

Organisations

Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)

People	ORCID iD
Roger Evans (Principal Investigator)

Publications

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Arefiev A (2016) Beyond the ponderomotive limit: direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas

Gong Z (2017) Brilliant GeV Gamma-ray flash from Inverse Compton Scattering in QED Regime

Sarma J (2022) Surface Plasmon-Driven Electron and Proton Acceleration without Grating Coupling

Qu K (2019) Creating localized plasma wave by ionization of doped semiconductors

Gong Z (2019) Radiation rebound and Quantum Splash in Electron-Laser Collision

Grigoriadis A (2022) Efficient plasma electron accelerator driven by linearly chirped multi-10-TW laser pulses

Dieckmann M (2015) Shocks in unmagnetized plasma with a shear flow: Stability and magnetic field generation

Zhu X (2018) Collimated GeV attosecond electron-positron bunches from a plasma channel driven by 10 PW lasers

Huang T (2018) Highly efficient laser-driven Compton gamma-ray source

Longman A (2021) Kilo-Tesla axial magnetic field generation with high intensity spin and orbital angular momentum beams

Hu R (2017) Electron dynamics and injection in plasma-based accelerators with sharp vacuum-plasma transitions

Bierwage A (2019) Similarity of magnetized plasma wake channels behind relativistic laser pulses with different wavelengths

Landgraf B (2016) Broadband stimulated Raman backscattering

Ferri J (2018) Enhanced target normal sheath acceleration using colliding laser pulses

Varin C (2016) Explicit formulation of second and third order optical nonlinearity in the FDTD framework

Valenta P (2019) Recoil Effects on Reflection from Relativistic Mirrors in Laser Plasmas

Jiang K (2023) Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

Hadjisolomou P (2022) Towards Bright Gamma-Ray Flash Generation From Tailored Target Irradiated by Multi-Petawatt Laser

Shi Y (2021) Generation of ultra-relativistic monoenergetic electron bunches via a synergistic interaction of longitudinal electric and magnetic fields of a twisted laser

Stark D (2014) A Relativistic Plasma Polarizer: Impact of Temperature Anisotropy on Relativistic Transparency

Jansen O (2017) Leveraging extreme laser-driven magnetic fields for gamma-ray generation and pair production

Spencer S (2020) Inflationary stimulated Raman scattering in shock-ignition plasmas

Scott G (2018) Dual Ion Species Plasma Expansion from Isotopically Layered Cryogenic Targets

Zhu X (2021) Generation of 100-MeV Attosecond Electron Bunches with Terawatt Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

Tsiklauri D (2016) Collisionless, phase-mixed, dispersive, Gaussian Alfven pulse in transversely inhomogeneous plasma

Cook N (2016) Hydrodynamic shaping of gas jets for laser driven shock acceleration of helium ions

Petrzilka V (2023) Electron injection on steep ramp-up plasma density profiles in high repetition rate laser-plasma wake-field accelerators

Morris S (2021) Highly efficient conversion of laser energy to hard X-rays in high intensity laser-solid simulations

Arran C (2019) Optimal Parameters for Radiation Reaction Experiments

Hadjisolomou P (2021) Gamma-Ray Flash Generation in Irradiating Thin Foil Target by Single Cycle Tightly Focused Extreme Power Laser Pulse

Sahai A (2018) Quasi-monoenergetic Laser-Plasma Positron Accelerator using Particle-Shower Plasma-Wave interactions

Jakobsson O (2021) GeV-scale accelerators driven by plasma-modulated pulses from kilohertz lasers

Peebles J (2018) High-angle Deflection of the Energetic Electrons by a Voluminous Magnetic Structure in Near-normal Intense Laser-plasma Interactions

Garasev M (2016) Impact of continuous particle injection on generation and decay of the magnetic field in collisionless shocks

Valenta P (2021) Ring-shaped electron beams from laser-wakefield accelerator

Jirka M (2019) Enhanced photon emission from a double-layer target at moderate laser intensities

He Y (2020) Dominance of $?$-$?$ electron-positron pair creation in a plasma driven by high-intensity lasers

Bin J (2017) Enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration by superponderomotive electrons generated from near-critical-density plasma

Gelfer E (2018) Theory and simulations of radiation friction induced enhancement of laser-driven longitudinal fields

Rinderknecht H (2021) Relativistically transparent magnetic filaments: scaling laws, initial results and prospects for strong-field QED studies

Scott G (2017) Diagnosis of Weibel instability evolution in the rear surface density scale lengths of laser solid interactions via proton acceleration

Wettervik B (2016) Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell modelling using finite volumes and adaptive mesh refinement

Lehmann G (2016) Transient plasma photonic crystals for high-power lasers

Jansen O (2019) Collimated gamma-ray beams from structured laser-irradiated targets -- how to increase the efficiency without increasing the laser intensity

Yigitoglu Keskin M (2021) Generating Proton Energy Spectra for Space Environment Tests with Laser Driven Accelerators (September 2021)

Gong Z (2022) Electron polarization in ultrarelativistic plasma current filamentation instabilities

Tsai H (2014) Compact tunable Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator and plasma mirror

Siminos E (2016) Kinetic and finite ion mass effects on the transition to relativistic self-induced transparency in laser-driven ion acceleration

Arefiev A (2020) Birefringence in thermally anisotropic relativistic plasmas and its impact on laser-plasma interactions

Gong Z (2021) Retrieving transient magnetic fields of ultrarelativistic laser plasma via ejected electron polarization

Key Findings
Impact Summary


Description	Developed, tested and made available a very high performance computer model of lasers and high temperature plasmas. Used the model to design a novel electron mirror to control and collimate the relativistic electrons from an ultra high power laser beam.
Exploitation Route	The plasma code Epoch is now widely used by universities in the UK and Europe.
Sectors	Education Energy Environment


Description	The plasma code Epoch has been used by us to address problems in laser plasma physics relevant to Inertial Confinement Fusion. The code is used by many universities in the UK and Europe.
First Year Of Impact	2011
Sector	Education,Energy

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