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- Title
Cyclotron Mechanism of Electron Acceleration in Subpicosecond Laser Plasma.
- Authors
Belyaev, V. S.; Kostenko, O. F.; Lisitsa, V. S.
- Abstract
The effect of ultrastrong magnetic fields generated in a relativistic-intensity subpicosecond laser plasma on the acceleration of fast electrons was studied. It is shown that resonance electrons can continuously accumulate energy from the circularly polarized laser field in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. For the linear polarization and a transverse magnetic field, energy accumulation has a pulse-periodic character, and the electron trajectories correspond to electron rotation in the Larmor orbit in a quasi-stationary magnetic field, while the energy strongly oscillates. In both cases, electron energy may attain values higher than 100 MeV for intensities of 10[sup20] W/cm².
- Subjects
MAGNETIC fields; ELECTRON accelerators; LASER plasmas; POLARIZATION &; Correlation Phenomena in Atomic Collisions (Book)
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2003, Vol 77, Issue 12, p653
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1604414