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RAGatini — A Generalizable Topical Expert Agent AWS-enabled Large Language Model chatbot that retrieves and synthesizes answers to domain-specific questions using a user-built corpus. Useful for research groups looking to build searchable knowledge bases from their own literature, simulation documentation, or experimental logs.
Inverse-Compton-Scattering-Particle Solver Analytical and numerical trajectories for electrons counter-propagating against focused high-intensity lasers. Supports design and analysis of laser-electron collision experiments for high-energy photon production.
Two-Screen Electron Spectrometer Devolution Electron beam reconstruction for five-dimensional phase space and differentiated spectrum from two-screen magnetic spectrometer data. Designed for laser wakefield accelerator diagnostics.
In Development
Colliding Liquid Jets — OpenFOAM Case Liquid target design using interFoam to simulate interface formation and transient evolution of the liquid sheet formed where two jets meet in near-vacuum. Supports high-repetition-rate laser target development.
LWFA-PIC-GNS Graph-Neural-Network Simulator as a non-blackbox surrogate model for particle-in-cell simulations of laser wakefield acceleration. Aims to accelerate parameter space exploration while preserving physical interpretability.
Laser Wakefield Acceleration and Electron Beams
O. Z. Labun, C. Aniculaesei, A. Gottfredson, R. van Mourik, D. Phan, M. Hegelich, and S. Milton, "Statistical method for reconstructing electron beam transverse phase space from a magnetic spectrometer," to appear in arXiv.
C. Aniculaesei et al., "Acceleration of electron bunches beyond 10 GeV using a nanoparticle-assisted hybrid wakefield accelerator," Matter and Radiation at Extremes 9.1 (2024).
L. Labun, M. Gracia-Linares, O. Z. Labun, S. V. Milton, "Performance envelope of laser wakefield accelerators," arXiv 2412.14311.
B. M. Hegelich, C. Hojbota, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, D. Phan, "Luminosity for laser-electron colliders," arXiv 2307.10453. (authors in alphabetical order)
B. M. Hegelich, L. A. Labun, O. Z. Labun, "Reconciling vacuum laser acceleration theory and experiment," Photonics 2023, 10(2), 226. arXiv:2009.00659. (authors in alphabetical order)
Strong-Field QED and Photon Production
S. V. Luedtke, L. Yin, L. A. Labun, Ou Z. Labun, B. J. Albright, D. J. Stark, R. F. Bird, W. D. Nystrom, B. M. Hegelich, "Creating QED Photon Jets with Present-Day Lasers," Phys. Rev. Research 3 (2021) L032061.
S. V. Luedtke, L. A. Labun, Ou Z. Labun, K.-U. Bamberg, H. Ruhl, B. M. Hegelich, "Jet Observable for Photons from High-Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions," arXiv:1808.07067, submitted to Phys. Rev. E.
B. M. Hegelich, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, G. Torrieri, H. Truran, "Electron response to radiation under linear acceleration: Classical, QED, and accelerated frame predictions," Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 096034.
B. M. Hegelich, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, "Finding quantum effects in strong classical potentials," J. Plasma Phys. 83 (2017) 035901. arXiv:1704.05034
Laser-Driven Fusion, Neutrons, and Ions
E. McCary, O. Z. Labun, L. Labun, T. Ditmire, T. Mehlhorn, D. Voss, "Investigations of advanced fusion and alpha particle detection from Petawatt scale laser driven particle beams," to appear in arXiv.
Ou Z. Labun and D. D. Phan and L. Labun and M. L. Klebonas and Calin Hojbota and Philip Franke and Sam Yoffe and Rahul Kumar and B. M. Hegelich, "Laser-Wakefield-Driven Photonuclear and Laser-Driven DD Fusion Neutron Sources for Fast Neutron Capture: A Start-to-End Simulation Study", arXiv: 2605.18968, submitted to Physics of Plasma.
B. M. Hegelich, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, E. McCary, T. Mehlhorn, "Photon and neutron production as in-situ diagnostics of proton-boron fusion," Laser and Particle Beams, vol. 2023, Article ID 6924841. (authors in alphabetical order)
X. Jiao et al., "Laser-driven neutron source from high temperature D-D fusion reactions," Frontiers in Physics 10 (2023): 1361.
X. Jiao et al., "Laser-driven Ion and Neutron Sources from Medium Repetition Ultrashort PW Laser", arXiv: 2605.18969, submitted to Physics of Plasma.
High Energy Density Plasma Modeling
R. Sain, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, B. M. Hegelich, "Unified Model of Heated Plasma Expansion," arXiv 2511.02028
Hadron Spectroscopy
Ou Zhang, C. Meng, H. Q. Zheng, "Ambiversion of X(3872)," Phys. Lett. B 680 (2009) 453–458. arXiv:0901.1553
Y. Mao, X. G. Wang, Ou Zhang, H. Q. Zheng, Z. Y. Zhou, "A Dispersive Analysis on the f₀(600) and f₀(980) Resonances in γγ → ππ," Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 116008. arXiv:0904.1445
X. G. Wang, Ou Zhang, L. C. Jin, H. Q. Zheng, Z. Y. Zhou, "Investigations of the Property of f₀(600) and f₀(980) Resonances in γγ → ππ Process," PoS CD09:084, 2009. arXiv:0910.0341
Z. H. Guo, Ou Zhang, H. Q. Zheng, "Positivity Constraints on LECs of ChiPT Lagrangian at O(p⁶) Level," AIP Conf. Proc. 1343:259–261, 2011. arXiv:0911.4447