High-density electron–ion bunch formation and multi-GeV positron production via radiative trapping in extreme-intensity laser–plasma interactions

High-density electron–ion bunch formation and multi-GeV positron production via radiative trapping in extreme-intensity laser–plasma interactions

Multi-petawatt laser systems will open up a novel interaction regime mixing collective plasma and quantum electrodynamic processes, giving rise to prolific generation of gamma-ray photons and electron–positron pairs. Here, using particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate the physics of the interac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: R Capdessus, L Gremillet, P McKenna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Subjects:
radiation reaction
ultraintense laser-solid interactions
synchrotron radiation
multiphoton Breit–Wheeler process
nonlinear inverse Compton scattering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abc1fa

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abc1fa

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