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High Field Plasmonics

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Ultra-short laser-matter interaction at extreme intensities is a broad research field with several potential applications, including electron acceleration, ion acceleration, ultra-intense x-ray and \(\gamma \) sources, pulsed neutron sources and laboratory astrophysics (see Chap. 2). Laser-driven sources of charged particles or photons are characterized by some distinctive features with respect to conventional sources. Indeed, due to the shortness of the laser pulse, they can surpass the peak intensity of conventional sources.

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    An accelerated particle irradiates electromagnetic energy. The back-reaction force exerted on the particle due to this electromagnetic emission is called Radiation Reaction force.

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    Electron sources with these characteristics are not easily attainable with other techniques. Electron bunches in the few MeVs energy range could be interesting for imaging of ultra-fast processes with electron diffraction (i.e. Ultra-fast Electron Diffraction) [11–13] or photo-neutron generation (recently laser-based photoneutron sources were proven to reach very high peak flux intensities [3, 5]).

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Fedeli, L. (2017). Introduction. In: High Field Plasmonics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44290-7_1

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