Ricardo Fonseca

Research interests

Publications

• EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report

  The European Physical Journal Special Topics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8

• Acceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0485-4

• Seeded QED cascades in counterpropagating laser pulses

  Physical review. E · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.95.023210

• Amplification and generation of ultra-intense twisted laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10371

• Laser absorption via quantum electrodynamics cascades in counter propagating laser pulses

  Physics of Plasmas · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4950841

• Laser-Driven Shock Acceleration of Monoenergetic Ion Beams

  Physical Review Letters · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.215001

• Weibel-Instability-Mediated Collisionless Shocks in the Laboratory with Ultraintense Lasers

  Physical Review Letters · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.235004

• Collisionless shocks in laser-produced plasma generate monoenergetic high-energy proton beams

  Nature Physics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2130

• All-Optical Steering of Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beams

  Physical Review Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.215001

• Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

  Nature Physics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1789

• Self-Guided Laser Wakefield Acceleration beyond 1 GeV Using Ionization-Induced Injection

  Physical Review Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.105003

• Simulations of efficient Raman amplification into the multipetawatt regime

  Nature Physics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1793

• Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames

  Nature Physics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1538

• Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse

  Physical Review Letters · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.035002

• Measurements of the Critical Power for Self-Injection of Electrons in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

  Physical Review Letters · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.215006

• Beam Loading in the Nonlinear Regime of Plasma-Based Acceleration

  Physical Review Letters · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.101.145002

• Generating multi-GeV electron bunches using single stage laser wakefield acceleration in a 3D nonlinear regime

  Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevstab.10.061301

• Long-Time Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Gamma-Ray Burst Shocks

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1086/427921

• Near-GeV-Energy Laser-Wakefield Acceleration of Self-Injected Electrons in a Centimeter-Scale Plasma Channel

  Physical Review Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.93.185002

• Proton Shock Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions

  Physical Review Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.015002

• Interpenetrating Plasma Shells: Near-Equipartition Magnetic Field Generation and Nonthermal Particle Acceleration

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1086/379156

• OSIRIS: A Three-Dimensional, Fully Relativistic Particle in Cell Code for Modeling Plasma Based Accelerators

  Lecture notes in computer science · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47789-6_36

• On the role of the purely transverse Weibel instability in fast ignitor scenarios

  Physics of Plasmas · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1476004

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