Physics – Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
2000-03-24
Phys.Rev.ST Accel.Beams 2:121301,1999
Physics
Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.2.121301
A free electron can temporarily gain a very significant amount of energy if it is overrun by an intense electromagnetic wave. In principle, this process would permit large enhancements in the center-of-mass energy of electron-electron, electron-positron and electron-photon interactions if these take place in the presence of an intense laser beam. Practical considerations severely limit the utility of this concept for contemporary lasers incident on relativistic electrons. A more accessible laboratory phenomenon is electron-positron production via an intense laser beam incident on a gas. Intense electromagnetic pulses of astrophysical origin can lead to very energetic photons via bremsstrahlung of temporarily accelerated electrons.
McDonald Kirk T.
Shmakov Konstantine
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