BPU 12 Congress

Session

Plenary Session 2

9 Jul 2025, 09:00

A 010 Amphitheater (Rectory Building)

233. Gravitational Waves; the theorists' Swiss knife

Mairi Sakellariadou (Physics Department, Strand, London)

09/07/2025, 09:00

Invited Lecture

I will briefly present how gravitational waves are used to test astrophysical and cosmological models addressing a number of currently open questions about the early stages of our universe. Gravitational waves can test the validity of models of gravity and constrain particle physics models beyond the Standard Model.

204. Terahertz radiation produced by ultraintense laser-solid interactions

Luc Bergé (CEA, DAM, DIF)

09/07/2025, 09:30

Invited Lecture

33. Terahertz radiation produced by ultraintense laser-solid interactions

Dr Luc Bergé (Centre des Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, Talence Cedex, 33405, France)

S08 – Plasma, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Invited Lecture

A current challenge in terahertz (THz) science [1] is to produce broadband THz pulses with mJ-level energies, which can be achieved by irradiating solid targets at relativistic laser intensities. In this regime, coherent transition radiation from electron bunches exiting the rear plasma boundary of fully ionized matter may lead to intense THz emissions characterized by a mJ-to-Joule energy...