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Francesco Massimo: advancing laser-plasma acceleration simulation with Smilei open-source code
… 2022. He studies the acceleration of electrons in plasma waves generated by intense laser pulses. Since 2017, he has … been working on Smilei, an open-source code that has been awarded the 2023 open science prize for open-source software … . As it is the case today, at that time there was a high demand of numerical modeling of …
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