By Hamlet K. Avetissian
This revised variation of the author’s vintage 2006 textual content deals a comprehensively up to date assessment of the sector of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics. It explores the interplay of robust and super-strong electromagnetic/laser radiation with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and numerous kinds of subject – together with unfastened charged debris and antiparticles, acceleration beams, plasma and plasmous media. the looks of laser resources of relativistic and ultra-relativistic intensities during the last decade has prompted research of a giant category of tactics less than such super-strong radiation fields.
Revisions for this moment variation replicate those advancements and the publication comprises new chapters on Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear absorption of superintense radiation in plasmas, the nonlinear interplay of relativistic atoms with excessive laser radiation, nonlinear interplay of robust laser radiation with Graphene, and relativistic nonlinear phenomena in solid-plasma goals below supershort laser pulses of ultrarelativistic intensities.
The in simple terms ebook dedicated to the topic of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics, this moment variation should be a important source for graduate scholars and researchers occupied with any element of the sphere, together with these operating with severe x-ray – gamma-ray lasers, the hot new release of small measurement laser-plasma accelerators of superhigh energies and high-brightness particle beams.
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Ritus, Ann. Phys. L. Ritus, Tr. Fiz. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 111, 141 (1979). A. Brau, Modern Problems in Classical Electrodynamics (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004) Chapter 2 Interaction of Charged Particles with Strong Electromagnetic Wave in Dielectric Media. Induced Nonlinear Cherenkov Process Abstract What can we expect from particle–strong wave interaction in a medium essentially different from that of a vacuum? It is well known that in a medium with the refractive index n(ω) > 1 (dielectric media) the Cherenkov effect takes place— charged particle moving with a velocity v = const radiates spontaneously transverse EM wave of frequency ω at the angle θ satisfying the condition of coherency cosθ = c/vn(ω).
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The particle initial energy is taken to be E0 = 40 MeV and the initial velocity is directed at the angle ϑ = 9 × 10−3 rad to the wave propagation direction ( p0z = 0). The refractive index of the gaseous medium for this calculation has been chosen to be n 0 − 1 = 10−4 . 17 eV) with electric field strength E 0 = 3 × 108 V/cm and δτ = 4T ( T is the wave period). For these parameter values the wave intensity is above the critical point and, as we see from this figure, the particle energy is abruptly changed corresponding to the “reflection” phenomenon.