Recent Publications

2025

• Double pulse generator for AWAKE scalable discharge plasma source, N. E. Torrado, C. Amoedo, A. Sublet, M. Taborelli, S. F. Pinto, J. F. Silva, and N. C. Lopes, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 3124, 012021 (2025).
  DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/3124/1/012021

• Self-guided propagation of laser pulses reflected at high intensity from plasma mirrors,
  J.-N. Gruse, N. C. Lopes, R. J. Shalloo, J. A. Hills, A. Alejo, T. L. Audet, M. P. Backhouse, N. Bourgeois, E. Gerstmayr, S. P. D. Mangles, et al.,
  New Journal of Physics 27 (2025).
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ae2cbf

• Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Future HEP Colliders,
  A. Caldwell, J. Farmer, N. Lopes, A. Pukhov, F. Willeke, T. Wilson, et al.,
  arXiv:2503.21669 (2025).
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• Experimental observation of the motion of ions in a resonantly driven plasma wakefield accelerator,
  M. Turner, E. Walter, C. Amoedo, N. Torrado, N. Lopes, A. Sublet, M. Bergamaschi, J. Pucek, J. Mezger, et al. (AWAKE Collaboration),
  Physical Review Letters 134, 155001 (2025).
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.155001

2024

• Multi-GeV electron acceleration in wakefields strongly driven by oversized laser spots,
  K. Põder, J. C. Wood, N. C. Lopes, J. M. Cole, S. Alatabi, M. P. Backhouse, P. S. Foster, A. J. Hughes, C. Kamperidis, et al.,
  Physical Review Letters 132, 195001 (2024).
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.195001

• Filamentation of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma,
  L. Verra, C. Amoedo, N. Torrado, A. Clairembaud, J. Mezger, F. Pannell, J. Pucek, N. van Gils, M. Bergamaschi, et al. (AWAKE Collaboration),
  Physical Review E 109, 055203 (2024).
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.055203

  2023

• Double Pulse Generator for Unipolar Discharges in Long Plasma Tubes for the AWAKE Experiment,
  N. E. Torrado, N. C. Lopes, J. F. A. Silva, C. Amoedo, and A. Sublet,
  IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 52 (2023).
  DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2023.3337314