Temporary Acceleration of Electrons While Inside an Intense Electromagnetic Pulse
加速器物理
2011-05-12 v1
摘要
A free electron can temporarily gain a very significant amount of energy if it is overrun by an intense electromagnetic wave. In principle, this process would permit large enhancements in the center-of-mass energy of electron-electron, electron-positron and electron-photon interactions if these take place in the presence of an intense laser beam. Practical considerations severely limit the utility of this concept for contemporary lasers incident on relativistic electrons. A more accessible laboratory phenomenon is electron-positron production via an intense laser beam incident on a gas. Intense electromagnetic pulses of astrophysical origin can lead to very energetic photons via bremsstrahlung of temporarily accelerated electrons.
引用
@article{arxiv.physics/0003073,
title = {Temporary Acceleration of Electrons While Inside an Intense Electromagnetic Pulse},
author = {Kirk T. McDonald and Konstantine Shmakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0003073},
year = {2011}
}