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- Title
Dynamics of a charged particle in a linearly polarized traveling wave.
- Authors
Bourdier, A.; Patin, D.
- Abstract
The basic physical processes in laser-matter interaction, up to(for a neodymium laser) are now well understood, on the other hand, new phenomena evidenced in PIC code simulations have to be investigated above. Thus, the relativistic motion of a charged particle in a linearly polarized homogeneous electromagnetic wave is studied, here, using the Hamiltonian formalism. First, the motion of a single particle in a linearly polarized traveling wave propagating in a non-magnetized space is explored. The problem is shown to be integrable. The results obtained are compared to those derived considering a cold electron plasma model. When the phase velocity is close to c, it is shown that the two approaches are in good agreement during a finite time. After this short time, when the plasma response is taken into account no chaos take place at least when considering low densities and/or high wave intensities. The case of a charged particle in a traveling wave propagating along a constant homogeneous magnetic field is then considered. The problem is shown to be integrable when the wave propagates in vacuum. The existence of a synchronous solution is shown very simply. In the case when the wave propagates in a low density plasma, using a simplifying Lorentz transformation, it is shown that the system can be reduced to a time-dependent system with two degrees of freedom. The system is shown to be nonintegrable, chaos appears when a secondary resonance and a primary resonance overlap. Finally, stochastic instabilities are studied by considering the motion of one particle in a very high intensity wave perturbed by one or two low intensity traveling waves. Resonances are identified and conditions for resonance overlap are studied.
- Subjects
PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); NEODYMIUM glass lasers; ELECTROMAGNETIC waves; HAMILTONIAN systems; MAGNETIC fields; LORENTZ transformations; CHAOS theory
- Publication
European Physical Journal D (EPJ D), 2005, Vol 32, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
1434-6060
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epjd/e2005-00010-4