Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983phrvl..51..392k&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 51, Aug. 1, 1983, p. 392-395.
Physics
257
Electron Acceleration, Laser Plasmas, Plasma Waves, Relativistic Effects, Electron Accelerators, Equations Of Motion, Magnetic Fields, Particle Trajectories, Trapped Particles
Scientific paper
The acceleration to which particles can be subjected in current linear accelerators is limited. The possibility is, therefore, investigated to use laser-plasma interactions to accelerate particles to high energies more rapidly. Tajima and Dawson (1979) have proposed the employment of a beat-wave accelerator to excite electrostatic plasma waves which can accelerate particles. The method makes it possible to generate extremely large electric fields (order 10 to the 9th V/cm). Dawson et al. (1983) have shown that classical particles trapped by a perpendicularly propagating electrostatic wave are accelerated until they detrap near the E x B velocity. The present investigation is concerned with the relativistic effects introduced when the E x B velocity is greater than the speed of light (i.e., E greater than B) and when the wave's phase velocity is not small compared to c.
Dawson John M.
Katsouleas Tom
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