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Acceleration of Electrons by Lasers in Vacuum

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Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

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Acceleration of electrons in vacuum to high energies is possible by laser wave packets with a finite lateral extension of the laser beam. Such an acceleration can be easily understood for electrons which are laterally injected into the beam and, after they are accelerated in a half wave length, are emitted at the other side of the laser beam. Present days lasers should reach electron energies up to about 100 MeV. For electrons with TeV energies laser pulses with a power in the order of 1000 EW (Exa=1018) are needed. A laser focus collider is discussed. A detailed numerical study of the acceleration of the electrons takes the effects of both the transversal and longitudinal components of the laser fields into account. Also an additional transverse static magnetic field is investigated in connection with the deflection of the electron beam out of the laser beam. It is shown that the longitudinal electric field reduces the energy gain by the transversal electric field maximally up to 40 %.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany

    Thomas Häuser & Werner Scheid

  2. CERN, CH1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Heinrich Hora

  3. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, 2033, N.S.W., Australia

    Heinrich Hora

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  1. Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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  3. University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

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Häuser, T., Scheid, W., Hora, H. (1992). Acceleration of Electrons by Lasers in Vacuum. In: Miley, G.H., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3324-5_44

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