Welcome to the website of the extreme plasma physics team, the theory and simulation team of the Group for Lasers and Plasmas of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Our team is funded by the European Research Council through the Advanced Grant "Accelerates" (ERC-AdG2010 no. 267841) and the Advanced Grant “InPairs” (ERC-AdG2015).
The project Realistic Simulations of Relativistic Plasmas in Astrophysical and Laboratory Environments, led by GoLP researchers Thales Silva and Pablo Bilbao, has been awarded 30 million CPU core hours on the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer through the Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada. This allocation will support cutting-edge research into the behavior of relativistic plasmas under extreme conditions, with applications to both astrophysical phenomena and laboratory experiments.
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Read more- Particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres: Transition between electrosphere and force-free regimes, Astronomy & Astrophysics 690 (2024) p. A229F. 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. 093002Robert Babjak, Bertrand Martinez, Miroslav Krus, Marija Vranic
- Laboratory Study of Magnetic Reconnection in Lunar-relevant Mini-magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal 969 (2024) p. 124Lucas 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. 5209CD 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
