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The quantum plasma lens concept: A preliminary investigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2013

FATEMA TANJIA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’ and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Italy (tanjia@na.infn.it)
RENATO FEDELE
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’ and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Italy (tanjia@na.infn.it)
SERGIO DE NICOLA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’ and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Italy (tanjia@na.infn.it) CNR-SPIN, Complesso Universitario di Monte S'Angelo - Via Cintia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy
DUSAN JOVANOVIĆ
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
ABDUL MANNAN
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Sede di Caserta and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Italy

Abstract

Recently, a theoretical investigation of the collective and nonlocal quantum effects has been carried out within the framework of a quantum approach to the relativistic charged particle beam travelling in a cold, collisionless, strongly magnetized plasma. This has been done taking into account both the plasma wake field excitation and the quantum paraxial approximation. On the basis of this theory, here we carry out a preliminary study of the transverse effects experienced by a cold relativistic beam through a thin plasma slab (plasma lens). In the strongly nonlocal regime, in which the beam experiences a very strong focusing effect, the scheme of plasma lens is reviewed in terms of the wave description provided by the above quantum theory.

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