Guiding-center equations for electrons in ultraintense laser fields

Joel E. Moore; Nathaniel J. Fisch

doi:10.1063/1.870760

Guiding-center equations for electrons in ultraintense laser fields

Joel E. Moore, Nathaniel J. Fisch

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The guiding-center equations are derived for electrons in arbitrarily intense laser fields also subject to external fields and ponderomotive forces. Exhibiting the relativistic mass increase of the oscillating electrons, a simple frame-invariant equation is shown to govern the behavior of the electrons for sufficiently weak background fields and ponderomotive forces. The parameter regime for which such a formulation is valid is made precise, and some predictions of the equation are checked by numerical simulation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1105-1116
Number of pages	12
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	1
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.870760
State	Published - 1994

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Condensed Matter Physics

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