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).
Last Saturday, the
37th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter (ECLIM 2024) was successfully concluded. GoLP was part of the organization and some team members also presented their work. Our GoLP members Sofiia P, Lucas A, Lucas I, Óscar A, Zahra M, Pablo B, Robert B, Bernardo B, Camilla W, Rafael A, Anthony MB and Filipe DC presented a poster, while Chiara B,…
Read moreOur team members Róbert Babjak and Thales Silva attended the
21st International Congress on Plasma Physics held on 8th to 13th September in Ghent, Belgium, to present invited talks about their recent work. Thales presented his recent results on the generation of unstable plasmas with laser-matter interactions and Róbert presented his results on direct laser acceleration mechanisms and its possibility as a high-brilliance…
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
