Ponderomotive acceleration of hot electrons in tenuous plasmas

Details Ponderomotive acceleration of hot electrons in tenuous plasmas Ponderomotive acceleration of hot electrons in tenuous plasmas

2009-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1460v1

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Plasma Physics

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The oscillation-center Hamiltonian is derived for a relativistic electron injected with an arbitrary momentum in a linearly polarized laser pulse propagating in tenuous plasma, assuming that the pulse length is smaller than the plasma wavelength. For hot electrons generated at collisions with ions under intense laser drive, multiple regimes of ponderomotive acceleration are identified and the laser dispersion is shown to affect the process at plasma densities down to 10^17 cm-3. Assuming a/gamma_g << 1, which prevents net acceleration of the cold plasma, it is also shown that the normalized energy gamma of hot electrons accelerated from the initial energy gamma_0 <~ Gamma does not exceed Gamma ~ a gamma_g, where a is the normalized laser field, and gamma_g is the group velocity Lorentz factor. Yet gamma ~ Gamma is attained within a wide range of initial conditions; hence a cutoff in the hot electron distribution is predicted.

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