Conveners
Special Session on PIC Simulations II
- Hartmut Ruhl (LMU)
Dr
Michael Bussmann
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
31/01/2020, 10:35
Laser plasma acceleration is transitioning from basic research to application and this transition is not finished.
At the one side of the spectrum, new experimental techniques and facilities enable a first look on the acceleration dynamics with atomic resolution.
On the other hand, simulations of the fundamental process are reaching predictive capabilities in both laser-driven elctron and...
Prof.
Ricardo Fonseca
(Instituto Superior Técnico)
31/01/2020, 11:00
Talk
The OSIRIS [1] Electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EM-PIC) code is widely used in the numerical modeling of many kinetic plasma laboratory and astrophysical scenarios. Working at the most fundamental microscopic level and needing to resolve the smallest spatial and temporal scales, these are the most compute-intensive models in plasma physics, requiring efficient use of large scale HPC systems....
Prof.
Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna
(IIT Hyderabad)
31/01/2020, 11:50
We have investigated the generation of dense electron-positron pairs and intense photonray
bursts in the laser plasma interaction using quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects
included in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Linearly polarized laser pulses were used to
irradiate a thin foil (1 μm) with an intensity of 4*1023 W/cm2. A scan of targets with
varying Z (Al, Cu and Au) is...
