Simulate the interaction between a high-energy particle beam and an intense laser pulse, including the classical dynamics and strong-field QED processes.
Information about the physics processes included in Ptarmigan, as well as how to build and run the code, can be found in the online documentation: https://tgblackburn.github.io/ptarmigan/.
Pull requests, bug fixes and new features, are welcome!
Contributors:
- Tom Blackburn
- Kyle Fleck
The main reference for Ptarmigan is
T. G. Blackburn, B. King and S. Tang, "Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and ɣ-ray polarization," Physics of Plasmas 30, 093903 (2023), arXiv:2305.13061 [hep-ph]
and individual releases are archived on Zenodo.