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A planar laser pulse propagating in vacuum can exhibit an extremely large ponderomotive force. This force, however, cannot impart net energy to an electron: As the pulse overtakes the electron, the initial impulse from its rising edge is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Dillon Ramsey , Philip Franke , Tanner Simpson , Dustin Froula , John Palastro

In this work a new mechanics will be studied which is based on the hypothesis that the change of linear momentum of a particle happens as a discrete pulses. By using this hypothesis and by considering Newton's relation between energy and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Munir Al-Hashimi

We present a new analytical solution for the equation of motion of relativistic electrons in the focus of a high-intensity laser pulse. We approximate the electron's transverse dynamics in the averaged field of a long laser pulse focused to…

Short-pulse intense lasers have the potential to model extreme astrophysical environments in laboratories. Although there are diagnostics for energetic electrons and ions resulting from laser-plasma interactions, the diagnostics to measure…

Classically, electromagnetic pulses are described by real fields that couple to charged matter and propagate causally. We will show here that real fields of the form used in standard classical electromagnetic theory have a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Margaret Hawton

Accelerated charges radiate, and therefore must lose energy. The impact of this energy loss on particle motion, called radiation reaction, becomes significant in intense-laser matter interactions, where it can reduce collision energies,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Chris Harvey , Arkady Gonoskov , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund

In this note we present a model that can produce a mass shift in a resonance due to interference between a scattering amplitude and that amplitude having rescattering through the resonance.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ron S. Longacre

When polarized electrons traverse a region where the laser light is focused their polarization varies even if their energy and direction of motion are not changed. This effect is due to interference of the incoming electron wave and an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Kotkin , H. Perlt , V. G. Serbo

Interaction of ultera-short laser pulses with a dense cold plasma is investigated. Due to high density, of plasma, quantum effects such that Bohm potential and quantum pressure should be considered. The results reveal that electron density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Sepideh Dashtestani , Hamidreza Mohammadi

I derive a lower limit on the mass of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) based on measurements of its speed and acceleration, as well as the infrared luminosity of the airglow around it. If the object's radial velocity can be neglected,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Abraham Loeb

This work considers the cospectral and arbitrary light emission of a moving source. The observed wavelengths of the emitted photons are described in term of kinematic and dynamical Doppler shifts in which the mass-energy relation plays a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Ademir Xavier

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

A new perspective on how to manipulate molecules by means of very strong laser pulses is emerging with insights from the so-called light-induced potentials, which are the adiabatic potential energy surfaces of molecules severely distorted…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Bo Y. Chang , Ignacio R. Sola , Seokmin Shin

The theory of the ultrashort laser pulse scattered by metallic nanoparticles in the region of surface plasmon resonances is developed in the framework of kinetic approach. For the spheroidal particles, the dependence of the light scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Petro M. Tomchuk , Danylo V. Butenko

The conventional picture of the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser) is broken under the ultrastrong interaction between the electromagnetic fields and matter, and distinct dynamics of the electric field and of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Motoaki Bamba , Tetsuo Ogawa

Thirty-five years after the discovery of rotation-powered pulsars, we still do not understand the fundamentals of their pulsed emission at any wavelength. Even detailed pulse profiles cannot identify the location of the emission in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding

We propose a novel measurement technique capable of determining the temporal duration of an intense laser pulse directly in its focus at full intensity. We show that the electromagnetic radiation pattern emitted by an electron bunch with a…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-30 Felix Mackenroth , Amol R. Holkundkar

It is generally believed that relativistically underdense plasma is transparent for intense laser radiation. However, particle-in-cell simulations reveal abnormal laser field absorption above the intensity threshold about~$3 \times…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 M. A. Serebryakov , A. S. Samsonov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

We consider the process of atomic ionization driven by a laser pulse with varying ellipticity. We study distribution of the momenta of the photoelectrons, ionized by a strong laser field, emitted in the direction perpendicular to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. A. Ivanov

It is shown that the gravity acceleration just above a chamber filled with gas or plasma at ultra-low pressure can be strongly reduced by applying an Extra Low-Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field across the gas or the plasma. This…

General Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Fran De Aquino