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In the laser --- electron beam head-on interaction electron energy can decrease due to radiation reaction, i.e. emission of photons. For 10--100~fs laser pulses and for the laser field strength up to the pair photoproduction threshold, it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-28 I. I. Artemenko , M. S. Krygin , D. A. Serebryakov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

In this article we investigate novel signatures of radiation reaction via the angular deflection of an electron beam colliding at 90 degrees with an intense laser pulse. Due to the radiation reaction effect, the electrons can be deflected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Philipp Sikorski , Alec G. R. Thomas , Stepan S. Bulanov , Matt Zepf , Daniel Seipt

An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here we show that measurement of the variances of this profile in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. G. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , S. P. D. Mangles , M. Marklund

With analytical treatment, the classical dynamics of an ultrarelativistic electron in two counter-propagating circularly polarized strong laser beams with either co-rotating or counter-rotating direction are considered. Assuming that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 L. Aliani , Q. Z. Lv

The radiation reaction effects on electron dynamics in counter-propagating circularly polarized laser beams are investigated through the linearization theorem and the results are in great agreement with numeric solutions. For the first…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Z. Gong , R. H. Hu , Y. R. Shou , B. Qiao , C. E. Chen , F. R. Xu , X. T. He , X. Q. Yan

Radiation reaction effects in the interaction of an electron and a strong laser field are investigated in the realm of quantum electrodynamics. We identify quantum radiation reaction with the multiple photon recoils experienced by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

The next few years will see next-generation high-power laser facilities (such as the Extreme Light Infrastructure) become operational, for which it is important to understand how interaction with intense laser pulses affects the bulk…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel R. Yoffe , Adam Noble , Yevgen Kravets , Dino A. Jaroszynski

The evolution of an electron beam colliding head-on with a strong plane-wave field is investigated in the framework of strong-field QED including radiation-reaction effects due to photon emission. Employing a kinetic approach to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-07 Norman Neitz , Antonino Di Piazza

We present the results of kinetic modelling of quantum effects in laser-beam interaction. In the developed numerical model, electron-positron pair production by hard photons, hard photon emission and the electromagnetic fields generated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Evgeny Nerush , Igor Kostyukov

With the aid of large-scale three-dimensional QED-PIC simulations, we describe a realistic experimental configuration to measure collective effects that couple strong field quantum electrodynamics to plasma kinetics. For two counter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Peng Zhang , A. G. R. Thomas , C. P. Ridgers

While the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which describes classical radiation reaction, can be solved exactly and analytically for a charged particle accelerated by a plane electromagnetic wave, no such solutions are available for quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 T. G. Blackburn

The emission from an electron in the field of a relativistically strong laser pulse is analyzed. At the pulse intensities of \ge 10^{22} W/cm^2 the emission from counter-propagating electrons is modified by the effects of Quantum…

The colliding between ultra-relativistic electrons and an ultra-intense laser pulse is a powerful approach to testify the physics in strong-field QED regime. By considering spin-dependent radiation-reaction during laser-electron collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Q. Han , C. Y. Qin , N. W. Wang , W. Q. Wang , Y. T. Wu , X. Yan , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

Non-linear cascade scattering of intense, tightly focused laser pulses by relativistic electrons is studied numerically in the classical approximation including the radiation damping for the quantum parameter hwx-ray/E<1 and an arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Zhidkov , S. Masuda , S. S. Bulanov , T. Hosokai , J. Koga , R. Kodama

The dynamics of electrons in counter-propagating, circularly polarized laser beams are shown to exhibit attractors whose ability to trap particles depends on the ratio of the beam intensities and a single parameter describing radiation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 J. G. Kirk

The influence of radiation reaction (RR) on multiphoton Thomson scattering by an electron colliding head-on with a strong laser beam is investigated in a new regime, in which the momentum transferred on average to the electron by the laser…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

The dynamics and radiation of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong counterpropagating laser beams are investigated. Assuming that the particle energy is the dominant scale in the problem, an approximate solution of classical equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Q. Z. Lv , E. Raicher , C. H. Keitel , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan

With the emergence in the next few years of a new breed of high power laser facilities, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how interacting with intense laser pulses affects the bulk properties of a relativistic electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel R. Yoffe , Yevgen Kravets , Adam Noble , Dino A. Jaroszynski

Soon available multi petawatt ultra-high-intensity (UHI) lasers will allow us to probe high-amplitude electromagnetic fields interacting with either ultra-relativistic electron beams or hot plasmas in the so-called moderately quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 F. Niel , C. Riconda , F. Amiranoff , M. Lobet , J. Derouillat , F. Pérez , T. Vinci , M. Grech

The radiation reaction radically influences the electron motion in an electromagnetic standing wave formed by two super-intense counter-propagating laser pulses. Depending on the laser intensity and wavelength, either classical or quantum…