Relativistic flying laser focus by a laser-produced parabolic plasma mirror

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21340%2F21%3A00353526" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21340/21:00353526 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68378271:_____/21:00563831

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053533" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053533</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053533" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053533</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Relativistic flying laser focus by a laser-produced parabolic plasma mirror

Original language description

The question of electromagnetic field intensification towards the values typical for strong field quantum electrodynamics is of fundamental importance. One of the most promising intensification schemes is based on the relativistic-flying mirror concept, which shows that the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the mirror will be frequency upshifted by a factor of 4 gamma(2) (gamma is the Lorentz factor of the mirror). In laser-plasma interactions, such a mirror travels with relativistic velocities through plasma and typically has a parabolic form, which is advantageous for light intensification. Thus, a relativistic-flying parabolic mirror reflects the counterpropagating radiation in the form of a focused and flying electromagnetic wave with a high frequency. The relativistic-flying motion of the laser focus makes the electric and magnetic field distributions of the focus complicated, and the mathematical expressions describing the field distributions of the focus become of fundamental interest. We present analytical expressions describing the field distribution formed by an ideal flying mirror which has a perfect reflectance over the entire surface and wavelength range. The peak field strength of an incident laser pulse with a center wavelength of lambda(0) and an effective beam radius of omega(e) is enhanced by a factor proportional to gamma(3)(omega(e)/lambda(0)) in the relativistic limit. Electron-positron pair production is investigated in the context of invariant fields based on the enhanced electromagnetic field. The pair production rate under the relativistic-flying laser focus is modified by the Lorentz gamma-factor and the beam radius-wavelength ratio (omega(e)/lambda(0)). We show that the electron-positron pairs can be created by colliding two counterpropagating relativistic-flying laser focuses in vacuum, each of which is formed when a 180 TW laser pulse is reflected by a relativistic-flying parabolic mirror with gamma = 12.2.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000449" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000449: High Field Initiative</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PHYSICAL REVIEW A

ISSN

2469-9926

e-ISSN

2469-9934

Volume of the periodical

104

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000725673500011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85120531709