On very short and intense laser-plasma interactions

DOI10.1007/S11587-016-0270-3zbMATH Open1356.35247arXiv1607.02367OpenAlexW3101661256MaRDI QIDQ2374355FDOQ2374355

Authors: Gaetano Fiore 

Publication date: 15 December 2016

Published in: Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We briefly report on some results regarding the impact of very short and intense laser pulses on a cold, low-density plasma initially at rest, and the consequent acceleration of plasma electrons to relativistic energies. Locally and for short times the pulse can be described by a transverse plane electromagnetic travelling-wave and the motion of the electrons by a purely Magneto-Fluido-Dynamical (MFD) model with a very simple dependence on the transverse electromagnetic potential, while the ions can be regarded as at rest; the Lorentz-Maxwell and continuity equations are reduced to the Hamilton equations of a Hamiltonian system with 1 degree of freedom, in the case of a plasma with constant initial density, or a collection of such systems otherwise. We can thus describe both the well-known "wakefield" behind the pulse and the recently predicted "slingshot effect", i.e. the backward expulsion of high energy electrons just after the laser pulse has hit the surface of the plasma.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02367

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear PDEslaser-driven accelerationlaser-plasma interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Special relativity (83A05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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