I am a postdoctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in the group of Alexander Pukhov. 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. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. 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]
9. 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]
10. 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. A. Pukhov and L. Reichwein, Stable high-transformer ratio beam-wakefield acceleration in cusp plasma channels. arXiv:2403.09427 (2024). [arXiv]
2. C. Zheng et al., First evidence of nuclear polarization effects in a laser-induced 3He fusion plasma, arXiv:2310.04184 (2023). [arXiv]
3. 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]

Teaching

Teaching assistant

• Theoretical Mechanics: 2019-2020, 2024
• Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics: 2022-2024
• Progamming Lab for Physicists: 2023
• Mathematical Methods for Physicists I: 2019, 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

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