The PhD seminar is held at 12.00 on Monday, 10/03/2025 in Nexus. The speaker is Frida Brogren.
Laser wakefield acceleration is a promising technique for generating high-energy, short-duration electron beams. To probe the laser-plasma interaction Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations are widely employed, however, they demand significant computational resources. A compelling method to shorten computational time is to perform the simulation in a Lorentz-boosted frame, where the plasma gets contracted and the laser pulse elongated. Nevertheless, numerical instabilities which arise from the particles streaming with relativistic speeds compared to the electromagnetic grid have hindered implementation. This work considers the mitigation and characterization of these instabilities.
Second year PhD in the plasma physics group, supervised by Arkady Gonoskov.
The seminar can also be attended through Zoom through this link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/9726023766