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Nonlinear Thomson scattering with strong radiation damping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

JAMES KOGA
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1 Umemidai, Kizu, Souraku, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan ([email protected])
TIMUR ZH. ESIRKEPOV
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1 Umemidai, Kizu, Souraku, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan ([email protected]) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy pereulok 9, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia
SERGEI V. BULANOV
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1 Umemidai, Kizu, Souraku, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan ([email protected]) A. M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street 38, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Abstract

With the advent of high-intensity short pulse lasers it has become possible to achieve extremely high intensities. When such laser pulses interact with plasmas or high-energy electron beams, radiation damping, which is usually small, can become large. We examine the effects of radiation damping on the backscattered Thomson radiation numerically and analytically. Using parameters comparable to the laser and microtron at the Advanced Photon Research Center we find that the overall spectrum is down-shifted and that the overall amplitude of the radiation is smaller than in the case with no damping.

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2006 Cambridge University Press

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