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).





Latest News

Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process into a plasma channel, now on POP

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The work Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process into a plasma channel by former epp intern Dominika M and epp members Bertrand M and Marija V is now out in the journal Physics of Plasmas. In this paper, electron-positron pair generation by an orthogonal collision of a multi-PW laser pulse and a GeV electron beam by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler… Read more

GoLP team members attend EAAC23 Workshop

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GoLP team members Carolina A, Chiara B, Bernardo M, Bernardo B, Nuno T and Mariana M went to Elba’s island in Italy to attend the 2023 edition of the European Advanced Accelerator workshop, held on 17-23 September 2023. Bernardo M delivered a plenary talk, while Carolina A, Chiara B, Bernardo B and Nuno T presented a poster about their recent work. Read more


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