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Radiation reaction in electrona??beam interactions with high-intensity lasers
摘要： Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil, known as radiation reaction, strongly affects the dynamics of ultrarelativistic electrons in intense electromagnetic fields. Such environments are found astrophysically, e.g. in neutron star magnetospheres, and will be created in laser–matter experiments in the next generation of high-intensity laser facilities. In many of these scenarios, the energy of an individual photon of the radiation can be comparable to the energy of the emitting particle, which necessitates modelling not only of radiation reaction, but quantum radiation reaction. The worldwide development of multi-petawatt laser systems in large-scale facilities, and the expectation that they will create focussed electromagnetic fields with unprecedented intensities > 1023 Wcm?2, has motivated renewed interest in these effects. In this paper I review theoretical and experimental progress towards understanding radiation reaction, and quantum effects on the same, in high-intensity laser fields that are probed with ultrarelativistic electron beams. In particular, we will discuss how analytical and numerical methods give insight into new kinds of radiation–reaction-induced dynamics, as well as how the same physics can be explored in experiments at currently existing laser facilities.
关键词： Laser-wakefield acceleration,Radiation reaction,Synchrotron radiation,Particle-in-cell simulations,Strong-field QED,High-power lasers
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Parametric study of ultra-intense laser interaction with uniform and nano-porous near-critical plasmas
摘要： Responses of the uniform near-critical plasma (UNCP) and nano-porous near-critical plasma (NPNCP) upon interaction with a short-intense laser have been scrutinized using two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell simulations. Maximum proton energy variation by the deposition of uniform and nano-porous layers in front of a solid target for a wide range of laser intensities (normalized amplitude a0 = 5–25) and average densities of the front layer ne = 0.3 ? 3nc (where nc is the critical density) has been parametrically studied. It is found that the proton maximum energy for the front layers with sub-10 μm thicknesses is independent of the target porosity and density. However, in the relatively thick targets, the nano-porous structure decreases the laser energy absorption and, subsequently, the maximum proton energy compared to the uniform one. The results indicate that by employing UNCPs instead of NPNCPs, at the moderate laser intensity, the maximum proton energy reveals a 23% enhancement. This increment could be explained by rapid self-focusing of the laser pulse and dominant direct laser electron acceleration regime on the well-formed plasma channel in the UNCP layer. However, in the case of NPNCPs, the laser scattering from the plasma structure makes it less intense and more disordered, which influences the efficient laser energy coupling to the electrons.
关键词： proton acceleration,near-critical plasmas,particle-in-cell simulations,ultra-intense laser,laser-plasma interaction
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Ion acceleration with an ultra-intense two-frequency laser tweezer
摘要： Ultra-intense lasers produce and manipulate plasmas, allowing to locally generate extremely high static and electromagnetic fields. This study presents a concept of an ultra-intense optical tweezer, where two counter-propagating circularly polarized intense lasers of different frequencies collide on a nano-foil. Interfering inside the foil, lasers produce a beat wave, which traps and moves plasma electrons as a thin sheet with an optically controlled velocity. The electron displacement creates a plasma micro-capacitor with an extremely strong electrostatic field, that efficiently generates narrow-energy-spread ion beams from the multi-species targets, e.g. protons from the hydrocarbon foils. The proposed ion accelerator concept is explored theoretically and demonstrated numerically with the multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations.
关键词： optical tweezer,particle-in-cell simulations,plasma,ion acceleration,ultra-intense lasers
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Recoil effects on reflection from relativistic mirrors in laser plasmas
摘要： Relativistic mirrors can be realized with strongly nonlinear Langmuir waves excited by intense laser pulses in underdense plasma. On reflection from the relativistic mirror, the incident light affects the mirror motion. The corresponding recoil effects are investigated analytically and using particle-in-cell simulations. It is found that if the fluence of the incident electromagnetic wave exceeds a certain threshold, the relativistic mirror undergoes a significant back reaction and splits into multiple electron layers. The reflection coefficient of the relativistic mirror and the factors of electric field amplification and frequency upshift of the electromagnetic wave are obtained.
关键词： particle-in-cell simulations,relativistic mirrors,Langmuir waves,laser plasmas,recoil effects
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Laser reflection as a catalyst for direct laser acceleration in multipicosecond laser-plasma interaction
摘要： We demonstrate that laser reflection acts as a catalyst for superponderomotive electron production in the preplasma formed by relativistic multipicosecond lasers incident on solid density targets. In 1D particle-in-cell simulations, high energy electron production proceeds via two stages of direct laser acceleration: an initial stochastic backward stage and a final nonstochastic forward stage. The initial stochastic stage, driven by the reflected laser pulse, provides the preacceleration needed to enable the final stage to be nonstochastic. Energy gain in the electrostatic potential, which has been frequently considered to enhance stochastic heating, is only of secondary importance. The mechanism underlying the production of high energy electrons by laser pulses incident on solid density targets is of direct relevance to applications involving multipicosecond laser-plasma interactions.
关键词： particle-in-cell simulations,superponderomotive electron production,direct laser acceleration,laser reflection,multipicosecond laser-plasma interaction
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Production of relativistic electrons at subrelativistic laser intensities
摘要： Relativistic electron temperatures were measured from kilojoule, subrelativistic laser-plasma interactions. Experiments show an order of magnitude higher temperatures than expected from a ponderomotive scaling, where temperatures of up to 2.2 MeV were generated using an intensity of 1 × 1018 W/cm2. Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations suggest that electrons gain superponderomotive energies by stochastic acceleration as they sample a large area of rapidly changing laser phase. We demonstrate that such high temperatures are possible from subrelativistic intensities by using lasers with long pulse durations and large spatial scales.
关键词： particle-in-cell simulations,relativistic electrons,stochastic acceleration,laser-plasma interactions,subrelativistic laser intensities
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Terahertz radiation enhanced by target ablation during the interaction of high intensity laser pulse and micron-thickness metal foil
摘要： When an ultra-intense relativistic laser is irradiated on a solid target, terahertz (THz) pulses can be generated by coherent transition radiation when the laser-driven electron beams cross the rear surface of the target. The radiation energy depends on the number and energy of the electrons. By introducing a milli-joule picosecond ablation laser pulse, an underdense preplasma with a scale length of micrometers is generated at the front surface of the target. Electron beams with more charge and higher energy can be produced during the interaction between the following main laser pulse and the preplasma, which enhance the THz radiation and affect the radiation angle. Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate the improvement of electron beams and a nearly tenfold enhancement of THz radiation energy is observed.
关键词： high intensity laser pulse,particle-in-cell simulations,coherent transition radiation,terahertz radiation,target ablation,micron-thickness metal foil
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Absorption and opacity threshold for a thin foil in a strong circularly polarized laser field
摘要： We show that a commonly accepted transparency threshold for a thin foil in a strong circularly polarized normally incident laser pulse needs a refinement. We present an analytical model that correctly accounts for laser absorption. The refined threshold is determined not solely by the laser amplitude, but by other parameters that are equally or even more important. Our predictions are in perfect agreement with particle-in-cell simulations. The refined criterion is crucial for configuring laser plasma experiments in the high-field domain. In addition, an opaque foil steepens the pulse front, which can be important for numerous applications.
关键词： particle-in-cell simulations,transparency threshold,circularly polarized laser field,laser absorption,thin foil
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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High energy proton micro-bunches from a laser plasma accelerator
摘要： Recent advances on laser-driven ion accelerators have sparked an increased interest in such energetic particle sources, particularly towards the viability of their usage in a breadth of applications, such as high energy physics and medical applications. Here, we identify a new ion acceleration mechanism and we demonstrate, via particle-in-cell simulations, for the first time the generation of high energy, monochromatic proton micro-bunches while witnessing the acceleration and self-modulation of the accelerated proton beam in a dual-gas target, consisting of mixed ion species. in the proposed ion acceleration mechanism due to the interaction of an ultra-short, ultra-intense (2 PW, 20 fs) laser pulses with near-critical-density partially ionized plasmas (C & H species), we numerically observed high energy monochromatic proton microbunches of high quality (peak proton energy 350 MeV, laser to proton conversion efficiency ~10?4 and angular divergence <10 degree), which can be of high relevance for medical applications. We envisage that through this scheme, the range of attained energies and the monochromaticity of the accelerated protons can be increased with existing laser facilities or allow for laser-driven ion acceleration investigations to be pursued at moderate energies in smaller scale laser laboratories, hence reducing the size of the accelerators. the use of mixed-gas targets will enable high repetition rate operation of these accelerators, free of plasma debris and electromagnetic pulse disruptions.
关键词： proton micro-bunches,laser-driven ion accelerators,medical applications,particle-in-cell simulations,high energy physics
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Polarized proton beams from a laser-plasma accelerator
摘要： We report on the concept of an innovative laser-driven plasma accelerator for polarized proton (or deuteron) beams with a kinetic energy up to several GeV. In order to model the motion of the particle spins in the plasmas, these have been implemented as an additional degree of freedom into the Particle-in-Cell simulation code VLPL. For the experimental realization, a polarized HCl gas-jet target is under construction, where the degree of proton polarization is determined with a Lamb-shift polarimeter. The final experiments, aiming at the first observation of a polarized particle beam from laser-generated plasmas, will be carried out at the 10 PW laser system SULF at SIOM/Shanghai.
关键词： laser-plasma accelerator,particle-in-cell simulations,Polarized proton beams
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52