Imperial College London
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ProfessorStuartMangles

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9643stuart.mangles Website

 
 
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725Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Turcu:2019:10.1017/hpl.2018.66,
author = {Turcu, ICE and Shen, B and Neely, D and Sarri, G and Tanaka, KA and McKenna, P and Mangles, SPD and Yu, T-P and Luo, W and Zhu, X-L and Yin, Y},
doi = {10.1017/hpl.2018.66},
journal = {High Power Laser Science and Engineering},
title = {Quantum electrodynamics experiments with colliding petawatt laser pulses},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2018.66},
volume = {7},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A new generation of high power laser facilities will provide laser pulses with extremely high powers of 10 petawatt (PW)and even 100 PW, capable of reaching intensities of 1023W/cm2in the laser focus.  These ultra-high intensities arenevertheless lower than the Schwinger intensityIS=2.3×1029W/cm2at which the theory of quantum electrodynamics(QED) predicts that a large part of the energy of the laser photons will be transformed to hard Gamma-ray photonsand even to matter, via electron–positron pair production.  To enable the investigation of this physics at the intensitiesachievable with the next generation of high power laser facilities, an approach involving the interaction of two collidingPW laser pulses is being adopted.   Theoretical simulations predict strong QED effects with colliding laser pulses of>10 PW focused to intensities>1022W/cm2.
AU  - Turcu,ICE
AU  - Shen,B
AU  - Neely,D
AU  - Sarri,G
AU  - Tanaka,KA
AU  - McKenna,P
AU  - Mangles,SPD
AU  - Yu,T-P
AU  - Luo,W
AU  - Zhu,X-L
AU  - Yin,Y
DO  - 10.1017/hpl.2018.66
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2095-4719
TI  - Quantum electrodynamics experiments with colliding petawatt laser pulses
T2  - High Power Laser Science and Engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2018.66
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000458608400001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71385
VL  - 7
ER  -
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