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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

The radiation reaction fields are calculated for an accelerated changing dipole in scalar and electromagnetic radiation fields. The acceleration reaction is shown to alter the damping of a time varying dipole in the EM case, but not the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. G. Unruh

We investigate quantum radiation reaction in laser-electron interactions across different energy and intensity regimes. Using a fully quantum approach which also accounts exactly for the effect of the strong laser pulse on the electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-17 Victor Dinu , Chris Harvey , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Greger Torgrimsson

The effects of radiation reaction (RR) have been studied extensively by using the ultraintense laser interacts with the counter-propagating relativistic electron. At the laser intensity at the order of $10^{23}$ W/cm$^2$, the effects of RR…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 J. F. Ong , T. Moritaka , H. Takabe

The dynamics of a radiating charge is one of the oldest unsettled problems in classical physics. The standard Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac (LAD) equation of motion is known to suffer from several pathologies and ambiguities. This paper briefly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Sofiane Faci , José A. Helayel-Neto , V. H. Satheeshkumar

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta

This work is dedicated to the study of radiation reaction signatures in the framework of classical and quantum electrodynamics. Since there has been no distinct experimental validation of radiation reaction and its underlying equations so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Norman Neitz , Naveen Kumar , Felix Mackenroth , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

We discuss radiation reaction effects on charges propagating in ultra-intense laser fields. Our analysis is based on an analytic solution of the Landau-Lifshitz equation. We suggest to measure radiation reaction in terms of a symmetry…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Harvey , T. Heinzl , M. Marklund

It is possible using current high intensity laser facilities to reach the quantum radiation reaction regime for energetic electrons. An experiment using a wakefield accelerator to drive GeV electrons into a counterpropagating laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 T. G. Blackburn , C. P. Ridgers , J. G. Kirk , A. R. Bell

The colliding between an ultra-intense laser pulse with a high energy electron beam is not only an important source for high-brightness gamma-rays but also a powerful approach to exploit new physics in the exotic strong-field QED regime. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

Radiation reaction (RR) is a fundamental yet incompletely validated process in laser-particle interactions, since it lacks quantitatively definitive experimental verifications, especially the transition from classical to quantum regime.…

{A simple electrodynamic model is developed to define plasma-field structures in self-consistent ultra-relativistic laser-plasma interactions when the radiation reaction effects come into play. An exact analysis of a circularly polarized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Aleksei Bashinov , Arkady Kim

Radiation reaction (RR) effects on the acceleration of a thin plasma foil by a superintense laser pulse in the radiation pressure dominated regime are investigated theoretically. A simple suitable approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 M. Tamburini , F. Pegoraro , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel , A. Macchi

We investigate radiation-reaction effects for a charged scalar particle accelerated by an external potential realized as a space-dependent mass term in quantum electrodynamics. In particular, we calculate the position shift of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi

Today's high-intensity laser facilities produce short pulses can, in tight focus, reach peak intensities of $10^{22}\,\mathrm{Wcm}^{-2}$ and, in long focus, wakefield-accelerate electrons to GeV energies. The radiation-reaction--dominated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 T. G. Blackburn

We develop a numerical formulation to calculate the classical motion of charges in strong electromagnetic fields, such as those occurring in high-intensity laser beams. By reformulating the dynamics in terms of SL(2,C) matrices representing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 C. Harvey , T. Heinzl , N. Iji , K. Langfeld

A new model to study the dynamics of relativistic quantum plasmas using the quantum electrodynamical (QED) approach has been constructed to analyze the quantum effects, relativistic corrections, and electromagnetic interactions. Considering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Priya Mishra , Punit Kumar

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 emission of multi-MeV ($\gamma$-ray) photons from the interaction of a high-powered laser pulse with a dense plasma target is studied using particle-in-cell simulations. A new set of diagnostic techniques is presented and applied to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 A. H. Younis , A. Davidson , B. Hafizi , D. F. Gordon

Current classical theory of radiation reaction has several deficiencies such as "runaway solutions" and violation of causality. The Landau-Lifshitz approximation to the exact equation introduced by Lorentz, Abraham and Dirac is widely used,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-20 Yevgen Kravets