Detecting radiation reaction at moderate laser intensities

Thomas Heinzl, Chris Harvey, Anton Ilderton, Mattias Marklund, Stepan S. Bulanov, Sergey Rykovanov, Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, and Wim P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. E 91, 023207 – Published 18 February 2015

Abstract

We propose a new method of detecting radiation reaction effects in the motion of particles subjected to laser pulses of moderate intensity and long duration. The effect becomes sizable for particles that gain almost no energy through the interaction with the laser pulse. Hence, there are regions of parameter space in which radiation reaction is actually the dominant influence on charged particle motion.

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Received 23 September 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.023207

Authors & Affiliations

Thomas Heinzl^1,*, Chris Harvey^2,3, Anton Ilderton³, Mattias Marklund^3,4, Stepan S. Bulanov⁵, Sergey Rykovanov^6,†, Carl B. Schroeder⁶, Eric Esarey⁶, and Wim P. Leemans⁶

¹School of Computing and Mathematics, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
²Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
³Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
⁴Department of Physics, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
⁵University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁶Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

^*theinzl@plymouth.ac.uk
^†Present address: Helmholtz Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07747 Jena, Germany.

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Vol. 91, Iss. 2 — February 2015

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