• Fábio Cruz is awarded the 2nd prize for Best Poster in ISSS-12

    epp MSc student Fábio Cruz was awarded the 2nd prize for Best Poster in the 12th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-12), out of approximately 50 posters, with his work “PIC Simulations of Collisionless Shocks in Mini Magnetospheres”. ISSS-12 was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on July 03-10 2015 and gathered some of the world experts in computational solar and space plasma physics.

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  • Jorge Vieira to give invited talk at ICHED in San Diego

    Jorge V will present an invited talk at the upcoming ICHED 2015 in San Diego. His talk will address “Large Scale Magnetic Field Generation In Laser Under-Dense Plasma Interactions” focusing on the results recently published in Nature Physics.

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  • epp team members to deliver two invited talks at upcoming APS DPP meeting

    epp team members Thomas Grismayer and Kevin Schoeffler will deliver two invited talks at the upcoming 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 16-20, 2015 in Savannah, Georgia. Thomas G talk will address QED cascades in ultra intense laser pulses, while Kevin S will speak about the generation of Biermann battery fields in laser-plasma interactions and the interplay with the Weibel instability.

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  • The “dream team” at EPS Lisbon

    Over the past week, all the members of the epp team, along with other GoLP members, showcased their recent work in invited talks, oral contributions and posters, covering several areas of plasma physics, along with other fruitful and informal interactions with the leaders of the field that visited Lisbon for the EPS 2015.

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  • MoU signed with CoReLS

    GoLP has signed an MoU with the Center for Relativistic Laser Science of the Institute for Basic Sciences of South Korea, during the visit of Prof. Chang Hee Nam, the director of CoReLS, to Lisbon. The MoU aims to strength the collaboration between the groups on high intensity laser matter interactions.

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  • Recent paper on the current filamentation instability selected for IOP Select

    Our recent paper on the spatio-temporal theory of the current filamentation instability by V.B. Pathak et al published in the New Journal of Physics has been selected by the editors as IOP Select. These are the articles from the last 12 months that have been chosen by the editors for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research.

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  • Luis OS to deliver PPPL Colloquium on May 12, 2015

    Luis OS will present the talk “In Silico Plasmas Under Extreme Intensities” at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Colloquium on May 12, 2015. More information is available here.

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  • The origin of cosmic magnetic fields probed with intense lasers

    In collaboration with physicists from Laboratoire d’Optique Apliquée (LOA), EPP researchers have tested a model for the origin of large-scale magnetic fields in the universe. The origin of magnetic fields in astrophysics is an outstanding scientific mystery, which has been investigated using powerful telescopes that probe our universe. Observations from telescopes can be viewed as data from experiments whose initial conditions cannot be controlled and tuned by human beings. In order to face this limitation, researchers have recently begun to reproduce astrophysical conditions under controlled environments in the laboratory. EPP team members Jorge Vieira and Luís Silva and LOA researchers have now used intense lasers in plasmas to test a model for the origin of cosmic magnetic fields in the laboratory. The work involving experiments, theory and simulations was published in Nature Physics and can be found here.

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  • New exotic state of matter created in the laboratory for the first time

    An international team of scientists involving epp team researchers Nitin Shukla, Jorge Vieira and Luís Silva recently announced the discovery of a new state of matter, which is electrically neutral and containing equal parts of matter and anti-matter. This new substance had never been observed before, and has been subject of many theories that predict that it could be observed near the boundary of black holes and produced through violent astrophysical explosions. Experiments combined with massive particle-in-cell simulations have now shown that this exotic substance could be produced when an intense laser propagates in a plasma producing ultra-relativistic electrons that can then be transformed in a fireball electron-positron beam with equal parts of matter and anti-matter. These results were published in Nature Communications. The paper can be found here.

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  • Team in Prague for SPIE 2015

     
     Elisabetta B, Joana M, Jorge V, Marija V, Thomas G, and Luis OS attended the SPIE Conference 2015 in Prague from April 13 to April 16, delivering several invited talks and oral and poster contributions. This year, SPIE covered many of the hot topics in ultra intense laser matter interactions, laser-plasma acceleration, radiation generation and QED effects, with many interesting results being presented.
     

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