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Radiation reaction has been investigated traditionally in classical dynamics and recently in non-linear QED for high-intensity field physics by high-intensity lasers. The non-linearity of QED is predicted as the coupling between a highly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Keita Seto

QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counter-propagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J > 5*10^22 W/cm2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou

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

It is conjectured that all perturbative approaches to quantum electrodynamics (QED) break down in the collision of a high-energy electron beam with an intense laser, when the laser fields are boosted to `supercritical' strengths far greater…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 T. G. Blackburn , A. Ilderton , M. Marklund , C. P. Ridgers

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

After the development of a radiating electron model by P. A. M. Dirac in 1938, many authors have tried to reformulate this model so-called radiation reaction. Recently, this effect has become important in ultra-intense laser-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Keita Seto

Signatures of stochastic effects in the radiation of a relativistic electron beam interacting with a counterpropagating superstrong short focused laser pulse are investigated in a quantum regime when the electron's radiation dominates its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jian-Xing Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We study the behavior of reduced models for the propagation of intense laser pulses in atomic gases. The models we consider incorporate ionization, blueshifting, and other nonlinear propagation effects in an ab initio manner, by explicitly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 S. A. Berman , C. Chandre , J. Dubois , M. Perin , T. Uzer

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

The interaction of high energy electrons, positrons, and photons with intense laser pulses is studied in head-on collision geometry. It is shown that electrons and/or positrons undergo a cascade-type process involving multiple emissions of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. S. Bulanov , C. B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , W. P. Leemans

Radiation reaction effects in the interaction of an electron bunch with a superstrong focused ultrashort laser pulse are investigated in the quantum radiation dominated regime. The angle-resolved Compton scattering spectra are calculated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Jian-Xing Li , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil, known as radiation reaction, strongly affects the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 T. G. Blackburn

In this article, we present a unified reciprocal quantum electrodynamics (QED) formulation of quantum light-matter interaction. For electron-light interactions, we bridge the underlying theories of Photon-Induced Near-field Electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Yiming Pan , Avraham Gover

Radiation reaction, the force experienced by an accelerated charge due to radiation emission, has long been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental research. Experimental verification of a quantum, strong-field description of…

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 description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics. Remarkably, to date there is no unanimously accepted…

The vast majority of QED results are obtained in relatively weak fields and so in the framework of perturbation theory. However, forthcoming laser facilities providing extremely high fields can be used to enter not-yet-studied regimes.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 C. Baumann , E. N. Nerush , A. Pukhov , I. Yu. Kostyukov

Radiative cooling of electron beams interacting with counter-propagating electromagnetic waves is analyzed, taking into account the quantum modification of the radiation friction force. Central attention is paid to the evolution of the…

Ultra-strong laser pulses can be so intense that an electron in the focused beam loses significant energy due to gamma-photon emission while its motion deviates via the radiation back-reaction. Numerical methods and tools designed to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees

We show that an all-optical configuration of the laser-electron collision in the $\lambda^{3}$ configuration based on 10 PW-class lasers presents a viable platform for reaching the range of parameters where a perturbative QED in strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 M. Jirka , P. V. Sasorov , S. V. Bulanov