I am a postdoctoral researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich in the group of Markus Büscher. My research is in the field of theoretical plasma physics, specifically on the topic of wakefield acceleration.

Publications

A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

Peer-reviewed publications

1. D. Sofikitis, L. Reichwein, et al., High-energy polarized electron beams from the ionization of isolated spin polarized hydrogen atoms, Phys. Rev. A 111, 053119 (2025). [PRA] [arXiv]
2. Y. Liu, M. Zeng, L. Reichwein, and A. Pukhov, Adiabatic sheath model for beam-driven blowout plasma channels, Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023101 (2025). [PRR] [arXiv]
3. S.E. Perevalov et al., Acceleration of Electrons upon Interaction of Laser Pulses with Solid Targets in the Laser Peeler Regime, Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 51(4), S305 (2024). [Springer (ENG)] [QE (RUS)]
4. L. Reichwein, X.F. Shen, A. Pukhov, and M. Büscher, Spin-polarized 3He shock waves from a solid-gas composite target at high laser intensities, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 66, 055002 (2024). [PPCF] [arXiv]
5. L. Reichwein, A. Pukhov, and M. Büscher, Acceleration of spin-polarized proton beams via two parallel laser pulses, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 081001 (2022). [PRAB] [arXiv]
6. L. Reichwein, A. Golovanov, I. Yu. Kostyukov, and A. Pukhov, Positron acceleration via laser-augmented blowouts in two-column plasma structures, Phys. Rev. E 105, 055207 (2022) [PRE] [arXiv]
7. B. Aurand, L. Reichwein, K. M. Schwind et al., Spatial profile of accelerated electrons from ponderomotive scattering in hydrogen cluster targets, New J. Phys. 24, 033006 (2022) [NJP] [arXiv]
8. L. Reichwein, A. Hützen, M. Büscher, and A. Pukhov, On the robustness of spin polarization for magnetic vortex accelerated proton bunches in density down-ramps, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63, 085011 (2021) [PPCF] [arXiv]
9. A. A. Golovanov, I. Yu. Kostyukov, L. Reichwein, J. Thomas, and A. Pukhov, Excitation of strongly nonlinear plasma wakefield by electron bunches, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63, 085004 (2021) [PPCF] [arXiv]
10. L. Reichwein, J. Thomas, A. A. Golovanov, I. Yu. Kostyukov, and A. Pukhov, Fixing E-field divergence in strongly non-linear wakefields in homogeneous plasma, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62, 115017 (2020) [PPCF] [arXiv]
11. L. Reichwein, J. Thomas, and A. Pukhov, Finite-emittance Wigner crystals in the bubble regime, Laser Part. Beams 38(3), pp. 176-180 (2020) [LPB] [arXiv]
12. L. Reichwein, J. Thomas, and A. Pukhov, The filamented electron bunch of the bubble regime, Laser Part. Beams 38(2), pp. 121-127 (2020) [LPB] [arXiv]
13. L. Reichwein, J. Thomas, and A. Pukhov, Two-dimensional structures of electron bunches in relativistic plasma cavities, Phys. Rev. E 98, 013201 (2018) [PRE] [arXiv]

Monographs

1. L. Reichwein, Struktur von Coulomb-Clustern im Bubble-Regime, Springer Spektrum (2020) [Springer]

Reviews

1. A.F. Habib et al., Plasma photocathodes, Ann. Phys. 535, 2200655 (2023). [AndP]

Preprints

1. L. Reichwein, T.-P. Yu, A. Pukhov, and M. Büscher, Laguerre-Gaussian pulses for spin-polarized ion beam acceleration, arXiv:2505.05337. [arXiv]
2. L. Reichwein, A. Pukhov, and M. Büscher, Interaction of Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses with borane targets of different hydrogen-boron ratio, arXiv:2504.20015 (2025). [arXiv]
3. O. Mathiak, L. Reichwein, and A. Pukhov, Fast matter-antimatter separation via Weibel-induced plasma filamentation, arXiv:2501.14479v2 (2025). [arXiv]
4. L. Reichwein et al., Plasma acceleration of polarized particle beams, arXiv:2411.11621 (2024). [arXiv]
5. A. Pukhov and L. Reichwein, Stable high-transformer ratio beam-wakefield acceleration in cusp plasma channels. arXiv:2403.09427 (2024). [arXiv]
6. C. Zheng et al., Preservation of 3He ion polarization after laser-plasma acceleration, arXiv:2310.04184v2 (2023). [arXiv]
7. X.F. Shen, L. Reichwein, and A. Pukhov, Relativistic Topological Waves from Cherenkov and Doppler Resonances in Self-Magnetized Laser Plasmas, arXiv:2209.06685 (2022). [arXiv]

Proceedings

1. L. Reichwein, A. Soloviev, and A. Pukhov, Acceleration of spin-polarized proton beams from a dual-laser pulse setup, for the 48th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (2022). [EPS]
2. L. Reichwein, M. Filipovic, X. F. Shen et al., Interaction of Extremely Intense Flows of Electromagnetic Energy and QED Processes in Supercritical Fields, NIC Symposium 2022 Proceedings (2022). [NIC]
3. L. Reichwein, A. Hützen, M. Büscher, and A. Pukhov, Spin-Polarized Particle Beams from Laser-Plasma Based Accelerators, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2249, 012018 (2022). [IOP]
4. L. Reichwein, A. Pukhov, and J. Thomas, Wigner crystals in the bubble regime of wakefield acceleration, News and reports from High Energy Density generated by heavy ion and laser beams : 2019, p. 42 (2021). [GSI]

Editorials

1. L. Reichwein et al., Editorial: Spin-Polarized Particles in Relativistic Plasmas for Particle Accelerators and Fusion Reactors, Front. Phys. 12, 1534076 (2024) [Frontiers]

Teaching

Teaching assistant

• Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics: 2022-2025
• Mathematical Methods for Physicists I: 2019, 2023-2024
• Theoretical Mechanics: 2019-2020, 2024
• Programming Lab for Physicists: 2023
• Mathematical Methods for Physicists II: 2021-2023
• Theoretical Electrodynamics: 2021, 2022
• Numerical Simulations II: 2018
• Numerical Simulations I: 2018
• Elementary Physics Laboratory: 2015-2019

Own lectures

• Theoretical Laser Plasma Physics: 2024
• Higher analytical methods in physics: 2024 (together with Prof. Dr. Axel Grünrock)
• Crash course physics for pharmacists: 2018-2023