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Electron acceleration in underdense plasmas described with a classical effective theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2015

M. A. Pocsai ,
S. Varró  and
I. F. Barna
M. A. Pocsai*
Affiliation:
Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Konkoly–Thege Miklós út 29-33, Budapest, Hungary
S. Varró
Affiliation:
Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Konkoly–Thege Miklós út 29-33, Budapest, Hungary ELI-HU Nonprofit Ltd, Szeged, Hungary
I. F. Barna
Affiliation:
Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Konkoly–Thege Miklós út 29-33, Budapest, Hungary ELI-HU Nonprofit Ltd, Szeged, Hungary
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: M. A. Pocsai, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Konkoly–Thege Miklós út 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, XII, Hungary. E-mail: pocsai.mihaly@wigner.mta.hu
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Abstract

An effective theory of laser–plasma-based particle acceleration is presented. Here we treated the plasma as a continuous medium with an index of refraction nm in which a single electron propagates. Because of the simplicity of this model, we did not perform particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations in order to study the properties of the electron acceleration. We studied the properties of the electron motion due to the Lorentz force and the relativistic equations of motion were numerically solved and analyzed. We compared our results with PIC simulations and experimental data.

Keywords

Classical electrodynamicsElectron accelerationRelativistic equation of motionUltrashort laser pulsesUnderdense plasma
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 307 - 313
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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