Modeling of radiative and quantum electrodynamics effects in PIC simulations of ultra-relativistic laser-plasma interaction

M Lobet et al 2016 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 688 012058 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/688/1/012058

Authors of paper: M Lobet, E d'Humières, M Grech, C Ruyer, X Davoine and L Gremillet

Abstract:

Next generation of ultra-intense laser facilities will lead to novel physical conditions ruled by collective and quantum electrodynamics effects, such as synchrotron-like emission of high-energy photons and e+e- pair generation. In view of the future experiments performed in this regime, the latter processes have been implemented into the particle-in-cell code CALDER.

Author of notebook: Óscar Amaro

In this notebook we (approximately) reproduce some of the figures in the paper.