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Superstrong light fields
Laser vacuum acceleration of a relativistic electron bunch
I. V. Glazyrina, A. V. Karpeeva, O. G. Kotovaa, K. S. Nazarova, V. Yu. Bychenkovbc a Russian Federal Nuclear Center E. I. Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk
b P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
c All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Automatics, Moscow
Abstract:
With regard to the problem of laser acceleration of a relativistic electron bunch we present a scheme of its vacuum acceleration directly by a relativistic intensity laser pulse. The energy of the electron bunch injected into the laser pulse leading edge increases during its coaxial movement to a thin, pulse-reflecting target. The laser-accelerated electrons continue to move free forward, passing through the target. The study of this acceleration scheme in the three-dimensional geometry is verified in a numerical simulation by the particle-in-cell method, which showed that the energy of a part of the electrons can increase significantly compared to the initial one. Restrictions are discussed, which impose limiting values of energy and total charge of accelerated electrons.
Keywords:
laser pulse, electrons, vacuum acceleration, spectrum of particles, ponderomotive scattering.
Received: 19.12.2014 Revised: 05.02.2015
Citation:
I. V. Glazyrin, A. V. Karpeev, O. G. Kotova, K. S. Nazarov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, “Laser vacuum acceleration of a relativistic electron bunch”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 45:6 (2015), 551–555 [Quantum Electron., 45:6 (2015), 551–555]
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