Radiation Reaction Effects on Electron Nonlinear Dynamics and Ion Acceleration in Laser-solid Interaction
Plasma Physics
2011-09-20 v1
Abstract
Radiation Reaction (RR) effects in the interaction of an ultra-intense laser pulse with a thin plasma foil are investigated analytically and by two-dimensional (2D3P) Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations. It is found that the radiation reaction force leads to a significant electron cooling and to an increased spatial bunching of both electrons and ions. A fully relativistic kinetic equation including RR effects is discussed and it is shown that RR leads to a contraction of the available phase space volume. The results of our PIC simulations are in qualitative agreement with the predictions of the kinetic theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.5635,
title = {Radiation Reaction Effects on Electron Nonlinear Dynamics and Ion Acceleration in Laser-solid Interaction},
author = {Matteo Tamburini and Francesco Pegoraro and Antonino Di Piazza and Christoph H. Keitel and Tatyana V. Liseykina and Andrea Macchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5635},
year = {2011}
}