On the breaking of a plasma wave in a thermal plasma: II. Electromagnetic wave interaction with the breaking plasma wave
Plasma Physics
2015-06-04 v2
Abstract
The structure of the density singularity formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit leads to a refraction coefficient which has a coordinate dependence with discontinuous derivatives. This results in a non-exponentially small above-barrier reflection of an electromagnetic wave interacting with the nonlinear plasma wave.
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@article{arxiv.1202.1907,
title = {On the breaking of a plasma wave in a thermal plasma: II. Electromagnetic wave interaction with the breaking plasma wave},
author = {Sergei V. Bulanov and Timur Zh. Esirkepov and Masaki Kando and James K. Koga and Alexander S. Pirozhkov and Tatsufumi Nakamura and Stepan S. Bulanov and Carl B. Schroeder and Eric Esarey and Francesco Califano and Francesco Pegoraro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1907},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures