Scientific program

The program of the second conference on Extremely High-Intensity Laser Physics (ExHILP) is available below in this page. A PDF version of the ExHILP program can be downloaded here .

For information about the poster session, scroll down or click here. Check also this section for important information regarding the oral and poster presentations.

Oral presentations

Tuesday, September 5th

09:00 - 09:20 Opening Session
09:20 - 10:20 E. Esarey
Plasma-based lepton colliders   Presentation
Chairperson: J. T. Mendonça
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
Session: New High-Intensity Laser and Beam Facilities
Chairperson: V. Telnov
10:40 - 11:00 V. Yakimenko
Ultra-intense beams at FACET-II and experiments to probe High Field Quantum Electrodynamics far beyond Schwinger fields   Presentation
11:00 - 11:20 L. Lancia
Advances and first experiments at Apollon 10 PW
11:20 - 11:40 G. Korn
Advances @ ELI Beamlines: Status of user facility development
11:40 - 11:50 Short break
11:50 - 12:10 H.-P. Schlenvoigt
Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields: A stroke of luck for High- Intensity Lasers at the European XFEL
12:10 - 12:30 B. Hegelich
Theory and Practice of Extreme Field Science @ Texas PW
12:30 - 12:50 I. C. E. Turcu
Progress and commissioning experiments at ELI-Nuclear Physics
12:50 - 13:10 B. Shen
Possible Experiments with Station of Extreme light (SEL) at Shanghai Coherent Light Facility (SCLF)
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
Session: Schwinger pair production
Chairperson: A. Ilderton
14:30 - 14:50 H. Gies
Critical Schwinger pair production
14:50 - 15:10 R. Schuetzhold
Sauter-Schwinger effect and dynamical assistance
15:10 - 15:25 F. Hebenstreit
Pulse shape optimization for electron-positron production   Presentation
15:25 - 15:40 J. Dumont
Vacuum processes in tightly focused electromagnetic fields
15:40 - 15:50 Short break
Session: Breit-Wheeler pair production
Chairperson: T. Heinzl
15:50 - 16:10 F. Mackenroth
Second order processes of nonlinear QED in ultra-strong laser fields
16:10 - 16:25 T. Blackburn
Scaling laws for positron production in laser-electron-beam collisions
16:25 - 16:40 R. Capdessus
Influence of the ion mass on the non-linear Breit-Wheeler process with the next generation high power lasers
16:40 - 17:00 Poster flash presentations
17:00 - 18:30 Poster session & welcome reception

Wednesday, September 6th

09:00 - 10:00 A. Di Piazza
Radiation Reaction in Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics   Presentation
Chairperson: S. V. Bulanov
Session: Radiation reaction and nonlinear Compton scattering
Chairperson: M. Marklund
10:00 - 10:20 D. Seipt
Recent Advances in Non-linear Compton Scattering
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 10:55 J. Kirk
QED effects on trapped electrons in intense laser beams
10:55 - 11:10 F. Niel
From quantum to classical modelling of radiation reaction: a focus on stochasticity effects
11:10 - 11:30 A. Arefiev
New frontiers of photon generation and particle acceleration in laser-driven MT-level magnetic fields
11:30 - 11:40 Short break
11:40 - 12:00 A. Gonoskov
Ultra-bright GeV photon source via controlled electromagnetic cascades in laser-dipole waves
12:00 - 12:15 A. Angioi
Interference Effects in Nonlinear Compton Scattering
12:15 - 13:40 Lunch
Session: Electron-positron pair production and electromagnetic cascades
Chairperson: A. Di Piazza
13:40 - 14:00 A. Pukhov
3D PIC simulations of near-quantum electrodynamical regime of laser-plasma interaction
14:00 - 14:20 X. Ribeyre
Preparation of two-photon Breit-Wheeler pair creation experiments
14:20 - 14:30 Short break
14:30 - 14:50 M. Tamburini
Laser-Pulse-Shape Control of Seeded QED Cascades   Presentation
14:50 - 15:10 T.-P. Yu
Electron-positron pairs generated by lasers in near-critical-density plasmas
15:10 - 15:25 M. Jirka
Pair production in a tightly focused standing wave
15:25 - 15:40 A. Mironov
General theory of electron seeded self-sustained QED cascades
15:40 - 18:30 Social program

Thursday, September 7th

09:00 - 10:00 M. Marklund
Review of numerical methods for the study of high intensity fields   Presentation
Chairperson: B. Kampfer
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break
Session: Exotic Physics with High-Intensity Lasers and beyond
Chairperson: F. Mackenroth
10:20 - 10:40 A. Fedotov
Non-perurbative aspects of Intense Field QED   Presentation
10:40 - 11:00 B. Kampfer
Pair production: trident, Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger processes in multi-scale fields
11:00 - 11:20 A. Ilderton
Quantum dynamics in background electromagnetic fields
11:20 - 11:30 Short break
11:30 - 11:50 T. Heinzl
Depletion of Intense Fields
11:50 - 12:10 S. S. Bulanov
Flying relativistic mirrors for nonlinear QED studies
12:10 - 12:30 S. Meuren
Recollision processes and other photon-induced strong-field QED phenomena in a plane-wave laser field   Presentation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session: Experimental Progresses in High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interaction
Chairperson: V. Yakimenko
14:00 - 14:20 J. Cole
Experimental observation of radiation reaction due to hard photon emission in the collision of a high-intensity laser with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam
14:20 - 14:40 G. Sarri
Experimental observation of strong radiation reaction in the field of an ultra-intense laser
14:40 - 15:00 H. Chen
Laser Produced Positron Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Presentation
15:00 - 15:10 Short break
15:10 - 15:30 E. Stambulchik
In-situ measurements of the field strength due to radiative signatures
15:30 - 15:50 K. Krajewska
Ionization using relativistic short laser pulses for attosecond electron wavepackets generation
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30 D. Umstadter
High-Order Multiphoton Thomson Scattering: X-Ray Generation by Bright Infrared Light
16:30 - 16:50 C. H. Nam
Commissioning Experiments with the 4 PW Laser at CoReLS
16:50 - 17:10 P. McKenna
Advances in relativistic laser-plasma interaction: Controlling collective particle motion in an ultrathin foil
17:10 - 17:25 M. Galimberti
Spectral gain investigation for the 20PW project

Friday, September 8th

09:00 - 10:00 V. Telnov
Gamma-gamma colliders   Presentation
Chairperson: D. Umstadter
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break
Session: Exotic Physics with High-Intensity Lasers and beyond
Chairperson: B. King
10:20 - 10:40 S. V. Bulanov
Radiation Dominated Electromagnetic Shields   Presentation
10:40 - 10:55 M. Bussmann
Many, many photons: Classical and QED radiation reaction effects and the quirks of implementing them in Exascale-ready codes
10:55 - 11:10 E. Gelfer
Producing superstrong longitudinal fields with radiation reaction
11:10 - 11:20 Short break
11:20 - 11:40 H. Bauke
Spin effects and radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields
11:40 - 12:00 B. Dillon
Axion production in an intense laser pulse
12:00 - 12:15 A. Noble
Laser-plasma interactions under the influence of axions
12:15 - 12:30 H. Terças
Axion-plasma interaction in strong laser fields: the axion-plasmon polariton   Presentation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session: Vacuum polarisation
Chairperson: R. Schuetzhold
14:00 - 14:20 F. Karbstein
All-optical signatures of vacuum nonlinearity and the Heisenberg-Euler effective action
14:20 - 14:40 H. Ruhl
An efficient and accurate ODE based numerical solver for the Heisenberg-Euler equations in weak field approximation in 3+1 dimensions
14:40 - 14:55 B. King
Vacuum birefringence in high-energy laser-electron collisions
14:55 - 15:05 Short break
15:05 - 15:20 J. T. Mendonça
XUV vortex emission from a magnetized quantum vacuum
15:20 - 15:40 J. Koga
Precise Measurement of Delbruck Scattering Using Polarized Photon Beams
15:40 - 15:55 S. P. Kim
QED vacuum polarization and Schwinger pair production in curved spacetimes
15:55 - 16:00 Closing session
Poster presentations
Radiation reaction and nonlinear Compton scattering
  • I.01) E. Raicher *
    Nonlinear Compton in a rotating electric field - additional quantum parameter and the scaling of the emitted photon energy with the laser intensity   Poster
  • I.02) Ou Z. Labun
    Factorization of high-energy photon emission during laser-plasma interactions
  • I.03) D. Serebryakov
    Generation of synchrotron gamma-rays and electron acceleration during grazing incidence of intense laser pulses onto planar targets
  • I.04) J. Vyskočil
    Emission of gamma rays in ultra-intense laser interactions with solid targets
  • I.05) S. Rykovanov
    Gamma-ray generation from plasma channel resonant wiggler
  • I.06) M. Duff *
    Modelling the influence of the radiation reaction force on the acceleration of ultra-thin foils
  • I.07) L. Gremillet
    Synchrotron emission from nanowire-array targets irradiated at ultra-high laser intensities
  • I.08) F. Del Gaudio *
    Compton scattering collision module for OSIRIS
Electron-positron pair production and electromagnetic cascades
  • II.01) I. Ploumistakis
    Investigations on particle anti-particle creation from laser induced ultra-strong electromagnetic fields interaction with vacuum
  • II.02) G. Torgrimsson *
    Nonperturbative versus perturbative aspects in dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production
  • II.03) C. Kohlfürst *
    Phase-space analysis of Schwinger pair production in inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields
  • II.04) P. Satunin *
    Breit-Wheeler pair production in external electric field from worldline instantons
  • II.05) E. Efimenko
    Extreme States of Electron-Positron-Pair Plasma Produced by Laser Governed Vacuum Breakdown
  • II.06) A. Muraviev
    Extreme current densities via electromagnetic cascades in ultraintense laser fields
  • II.07) A. Fedotov
    Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a strong rotating electric field   Poster
  • II.08) A. Bashinov *
    Breakup of electron-positron plasma into current sheets in ultrarelativistic laser fields
  • II.09) C. M. Kim
    Pair Creation by a Spatially Localized Sauter-type Electric Field in Scalar QED
  • II.10) M. Vranic *
    Seeded QED cascades with two or four counter-propagating laser pulses
Exotic Physics with High-Intensity Lasers and beyond
  • III.01) A. Bogomyagkov
    Low-energy electron-positron collider for production and spectroscopic study of (mu+mu-) bound state
  • III.02) A. J. Macleod
    On the energy-momentum of light: an all optical view of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy
  • III.03) V. Kharin
    Higher-dimensional caustics in QED processes in the strong laser field
  • III.04) H. Kadlecová
    Gravitational wave generation by interaction of high power lasers with matter using shock waves
  • III.05) A. Hartin *
    Bound Dirac solutions from the locally gauge invariant Furry picture Lagrangian
  • III.06) S. Huang *
    Ultrafast Artificial Axion Source with Laser-Plasma Interaction
  • III.07) S. Villalba-Chavez
    Prospects for hunting invisible axions in strong laser pulses
  • III.08) I. Tsymbalov
    Tailored preplasma for gamma and neutron production with femtosecond table top TW laser
  • III.09) S. Ahrens *
    Spin-dependent diffraction in standing light waves
Experimental Progresses in High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interaction
  • IV.01) I. C. E. Turcu *
    Two 10 PW Counter-propagating Laser Beams for Experiments in High Field Physics at Intensities >1022 W/cm2
  • IV.02) L. Labun
    Connecting theory and simulation to high-intensity laser-plasma experiment
  • IV.03) M. Galletti
    Ultrashort optical parametric oscillator up to the mid-infrared based on BiBO pumped by a fs ytterbium laser
Vacuum birefringence
  • V.01) N. Ahmadiniaz *
    One-particle reducible contribution to the one-loop spinor propagator in a constant field
  • V.02) R. Torres *
    Finite-size and multidimensional effects of laser-induced vacuum birefringence
  • V.03) S. Bragin *
    High-Energy Vacuum Birefringence and Dichroism in an Ultrastrong Laser Field
Other topics
  • VI.01) K. Perrakis
    Production, acceleration and extraction of ions (negative/positive) from high-power laser induced plasma
  • VI.02) C. Baumann
    Generation of ultra-short electron bunches using circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes
  • VI.03) S. Tang
    Plasma high-order-harmonic generation and isolated pulse emission from ultraintense laser pulses
  • VI.04) B. Ramakrishna
    Understanding Filaments in Laser Plasmas
  • VI.05) X. Zhang
    Tunable Intense High-Order Vortex Generation
  • VI.06) C. Hojbota
    Space Charge Effects on the Propagation of Electron Beams following High Intensity Laser-Electron Scattering
  • VI.07) M. Grech
    SMILEI: a collaborative, open-source, multi-purpose particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation
  • VI.08) J. Magnusson *
    Prospects and Signatures of Chirped-Standing-Wave Acceleration
  • VI.09) I. Barth *
    Reducing parametric backscattering by polarization rotation
  • VI.10) F. Cruz
    Towards first-principle simulations of pulsar QED cascades: charge conserving scheme for PIC simulations in modified spherical coordinates
  • VI.11) J. Vieira *
    Relativistic particle vortices from a twisted plasma wave with orbital angular momentum
* inc. flash presentation
Important information for oral and poster presentations
Oral presentations
  • Plenary/invited/oral presentations will be 60/20/15 minutes long (discussion included), respectively.
  • There will be a computer available at the conference to display PDF presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote will also be available, however note that file format/missing fonts conflicts may occur). Using a personal laptop is also possible (screening tests are advised, contact the local organising committee for more information at the conference).
  • The projector in the conference amphitheater will only be able to display in a 4:3 format (i.e. using 16:9, widescreen slide format is discouraged).
Poster presentations
  • Posters should be printed in A0 format, portrait orientation.
  • Before the poster session, poster contributions may me introduced in a flash oral presentation (90 seconds). Those who wish to give a flash presentation about their work and did not fill the abstract submission accordingly should contact us at exhilp at tecnico.ulisboa.pt. More information about the flash presentations will be made available soon on this website.
  • A number tag is attributed to each poster, which identifies the board on which they should be displayed. Pins/tape will be available.
  • Posters should be put up by their owners on Tuesday (September 5th), preferably before the afternoon sessions.
  • There are several printing shops that you can use to print your posters in loco: two inside the campus (LTIDECivil and LIT-DEQB) and another one very close to it (2 minutes walk, ZoomCopia). All websites are in portuguese, but we hope you can find all the information you need. We can also help you on site to find these printing shops.
Flash presentations

People presenting posters at ExHILP will be able to deliver flash oral presentations (90 seconds long) before the poster session in order to introduce their work. This is an excellent opportunity to bring attention to posters and increase their impact in the following session. Those who wish to present their poster work in a flash presentation should let the ExHILP local organising committee know of their intention before August 28th at exhilp at tecnico.ulisboa.pt. Important information about the flash presentations:

  • Flash presentations will be 90 seconds long.
  • No time will be available for discussion at the flash presentations session, as it should happen momentarily after it in the poster session.
  • It will be possible for participants to project one slide (and one slide only) during the flash presentation. This slide should be sent to the conference organisation (exhilp at tecnico.ulisboa.pt) in PDF format before September 5th. Using a personal laptop will not be possible in the flash presentations session.
  • The projector in the conference amphitheater will only be able to display in a 4:3 format (i.e. using 16:9, widescreen slide format is discouraged).

Social program

The social program of the second conference on Extremely High-Intensity Laser Physics (ExHILP) will happen on Wednesday, September 6th at 4pm, and will be a 2.5 hours tour in Lisbon on Eco Tuk-Tuks. The tour will cover the locations of some of the iconic monuments, plazas, neighbourhoods and viewpoints of Lisbon. There will also be food and wine tasting points in the tour, with some Portuguese specialties. The tour will have a cost of 30€/person, that should be paid in cash at the conference on-site registration.

Main highlights: IST | Miradouro da Senhora do Monte | Miradouro das Portas do Sol | Parque Eduardo VII | Bairro do Chiado | S Pedro de Alcântara Ponto de vista | Bairro Alto | Príncipe Real | Assembleia Nacional | Basílica de Estrela | Museu da Eletricidade | Monumento das Descobertas | Torre de Belém | Mosteiro dos Jerónimos | Centro Cultural de Belém | Palácio de Belém.