Publications

• Particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres: Transition between electrosphere and force-free regimes, Astronomy & Astrophysics 690 (2024) p. A229
  F. Cruz , T. Grismayer, R. Torres, A. Y. Chen, A. Spitkovsky, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva
• Direct laser acceleration in varying plasma density profiles, New Journal of Physics 26 (2024) p. 093002
  Robert Babjak, Bertrand Martinez, Miroslav Krus, Marija Vranic
• Laboratory Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Lunar-relevant Mini-magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal 969 (2024) p. 124
  Lucas Rovige, Filipe D. Cruz, Robert S. Dorst, Jessica J. Pilgram, Carmen G. Constantin, Stephen Vincena, Fábio Cruz, Luis O. Silva, Christoph Niemann, and Derek B. Schaeffer
• Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams, Nature Communications 15 (2024) p. 5209
  CD Arrowsmith, Pascal Simon, PJ Bilbao, AFA Bott, Stephane Burger, Hui Chen, FD Cruz, Tristan Davenne, Ilias Efthymiopoulos, DH Froula, A Goillot, Jon Tomas Gudmundsson, Dan Haberberger, JWD Halliday, Tom Hodge, BT Huffman, Sam Iaquinta, Francesco Miniati, Brian Reville, Subir Sarkar, AA Schekochihin, LO Silva, Raspberry Simpson, Vasiliki Stergiou, RMGM Trines, Thibault Vieu, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Robert Bingham, Gianluca Gregori
• OSIRIS-GR: General relativistic activation of the polar cap of a compact neutron star, New Astronomy 112 (2024) p. 102261
  Rui Torres, Thomas Grismayer, Fábio Cruz, Ricardo Fonseca, Luis O. Silva
• Direct laser acceleration: A model for the electron injection from the walls of a cylindrical guiding structure, Physical Review E 109 (2024) p. 065204
  P. Valenta, D. Maslarova, R. Babjak, B. Martinez, S. V. Bulanov, and M. Vranić
• Learning the dynamics of a one-dimensional plasma model with graph neural networks, Machine Learning: Science and Technology 5 (2024) p. 025048
  D. D. Carvalho, D. R. Ferrerira, L. O. Silva
• Ring momentum distributions as a general feature of Vlasov dynamics in the synchrotron dominated regime, Physics of Plasmas 31 (2024) p. 052112
  P. J. Bilbao; R. J. Ewart; F. Assunçao; T. Silva; L. O. Silva
• The influence of laser focusing conditions on the direct laser acceleration of electrons, New Journal of Physics 26 (2024) p. 053010
  H Tang, K Tangtartharakul, R Babjak, I-L Yeh, F Albert, H Chen, P T Campbell, Y Ma, P M Nilson , B K Russell, J L Shaw, A G R Thomas, M Vranic, A V Arefiev and L Willingale
• Direct Laser Acceleration in Underdense Plasmas with Multi-PW Lasers: A Path to High-Charge, GeV-Class Electron Bunches, Physical Review Letters 132 (2024) p. 125001
  R. Babjak, L. Willingale, A. Arefiev, and M. Vranic
• QScatter: numerical framework for fast prediction of particle distributions in electron-laser scattering, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 66 (2024) p. 045006
  Óscar Amaro and Marija Vranic
• Hosing of a long relativistic particle bunch in plasma, Physical Review Letters 132 (2024) p. 075001
  T Nechaeva, L Verra, J Pucek et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)
• X-ray generation by fs-laser processing of biological material, Biomedical Optics Express 14 (2023) p. 5656
  P Mosel, J Düsing, S Johannesmeier, M Patzlaff-Günther, S Fröhlich, J Mapa, S Kalies, J Bahlmann, T Püster, J Vahlbruch, G Dittmar, H Merdji, M Fajardo, A Trabattoni, A Heisterkamp, U Morgner, M Kovacev
• Signatures for strong-field QED in the quantum limit of beamstrahlung, Physical Review A 108 (2023) p. 042816
  W. L. Zhang, T. Grismayer, and L. O. Silva
• Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator, Nature Photonics 18 (2023) p. 39-45
  B. Malaca, M. Pardal, D. Ramsey, J. R. Pierce, K. Weichman, I. A. Andriyash, W. B. Mori, J. P. Palastro, R. A. Fonseca, J. Vieira
• Beam delivery and beamstrahlung considerations for ultra-high energy linear colliders, Journal of Instrumentation 18 (2023) p. P09022
  Tim Barklow, Spencer Gessner, Mark Hogan, Cho-Kuen Ng, Michael Peskin, Tor Raubenheimer, Glen White, Erik Adli, Gevy Jiawei Cao, Carl A. Lindstrøm, Kyrre Sjobak, Sam Barber, Cameron Geddes, Arianna Formenti, Remi Lehe, Carl Schroeder, Davide Terzani, Jeroen van Tilborg, Jean-Luc Vay, Edoardo Zoni3, Christopher Doss, Michael Litos, Ihar Lobach, John Power, Maximilian Swiatlowski, Luca Fedeli, Henri Vincenti, Thomas Grismayer, Marija Vranic and Wenlong Zhang
• Positron acceleration in plasma waves driven by non-neutral fireball beams, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 26 (2023) p. 091301
  Thales Silva and Jorge Vieira
• Magnetic frame-dragging correction to the electromagnetic solution of a compact neutron star, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 524 (2023) p. 4116
  R. Torres, T. Grismayer, F. Cruz, L. O. Silva
• High-energy synchrotron flares powered by strongly radiative relativistic magnetic reconnection: 2D and 3D PIC simulations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 523 (2023) p. 3812–3839
  KM Schoeffler, T Grismayer, D Uzdensky, LO Silva
• Proton acceleration with intense twisted laser light, Physical Review Research 5 (2023) p. 023083
  Camilla Willim, Jorge Vieira, Victor Malka, Luís O Silva