A vacuum autoresonance accelerator scheme for electrons, which employs terahertz radiation and currently available magnetic fields, is suggested. Based on numerical simulations, parameter values, which could make the scheme experimentally feasible, are identified and discussed.
@article{arxiv.1504.00990,
title = {Feasibility of electron cyclotron autoresonance acceleration by a short terahertz pulse},
author = {Yousef I. Salamin and Jian-Xing Li and Benjamin J. Galow and Christoph H. Keitel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00990},
year = {2015}
}