biology, for analyzing structural and dynamical properties of atoms, molecules, clusters and bulk material. Lasers offer here an especially flexible and powerful instrument which has been widely exploited, especially during the last decades with the enormous technological progress reached in the manipulation of laser light [@Kel03; @Rul05; @Pas08]. We dispose now of a broad choice of laser intensities, frequencies, pulse lengths, and pulse shapes. Collisions with charged projectiles [@Ish13] are also used as sources of short electromagnetic pulses. However, they often require access to dedicated facilities.

Radiation damage is the other side of irradiation studies and it is of high current interest, for example in connection with biological tissues (“human-controlled” as in a medical context or “natural” when referring to earth or space radiations) [@Gar12]. There are also other interesting domains of application. A typical example is the case of the irradiation of materials (especially insulators) with applications to nuclear waste management. The field is rather unexplored from the microscopic dynamical point of view and any possibility of treating irradiation scenarios on large systems would be here of invaluable help [@Rei16]. In both above examples, though, the lack of understanding of microscopic mechanisms calls for dedicated studies on prototype, finite 