Publications

• Experimental Observation of the Motion of Ions in a Resonantly Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator, Physical Review Letters 134 (2025) p. 155001
  M Turner, E Walter, C Amoedo, N Torrado, N Lopes, A Sublet, M Bergamaschi et al.
• Can plasma physics establish a significant bound on long-range dark matter interactions?, Physical Review D 111 (2025) p. L071701
  K. Schoeffler, N. Shukla, and L. O. Silva
• Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas, Science Advances 11 (2025) p. eadt8912
  Pablo J. Bilbao, Thales Silva, and Luís O. Silva
• Direct laser acceleration of Bethe-Heitler positrons in laser-channel interactions, Physical Review E 111 (2025) p. 035203
  Bertrand Martinez, Robert Babjak, Marija Vranic
• Optimizing proton acceleration using hollow laser pulses and a double-layer target: effects of focal spot position and polarization, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 67 (2024) p. 015027
  C. Willim, L. O. Silva, J. Vieira
• 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