On the breaking of a plasma wave in a thermal plasma. II. Electromagnetic wave interaction with the breaking plasma wave

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作者
Bulanov, Sergei V. [1 ,4 ]
Esirkepov, Timur Zh. [1 ]
Kando, Masaki [1 ]
Koga, James K. [1 ]
Pirozhkov, Alexander S. [1 ]
Nakamura, Tatsufumi [1 ]
Bulanov, Stepan S. [5 ]
Schroeder, Carl B. [2 ]
Esarey, Eric [2 ]
Califano, Francesco [3 ]
Pegoraro, Francesco [3 ]
机构
[1] Japan Atom Energy Agcy, QuBS, Kizugawa, Kyoto 6190215, Japan
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Pisa, Dept Phys, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[4] RAS, AM Prokhorov Inst Gen Phys, Moscow 117901, Russia
[5] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117218, Russia
关键词
NONLINEAR PHOTON ACCELERATOR; ULTRASHORT LASER-PULSES; RELATIVISTIC PLASMA; DISPERSION; WAKE;
D O I
10.1063/1.4764056
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
In thermal plasma, the structure of the density singularity formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit leads to a refraction coefficient with discontinuous spatial derivatives. This results in a non-exponentially small above-barrier reflection of an electromagnetic wave interacting with the nonlinear plasma wave. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4764056]
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