Positive and negative effective mass of classical particles in oscillatory and static fields

IY Dodin, NJ Fisch - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2008 - APS
A classical particle oscillating in an arbitrary high-frequency or static field effectively exhibits
a modified rest mass m eff derived from the particle averaged Lagrangian. Relativistic …

Dynamics of a charged particle in progressive plane waves propagating in vacuum or plasma: Stochastic acceleration

A Bourdier, M Drouin - Laser and Particle Beams, 2009 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of a charged particle in a relativistic strong electromagnetic plane wave
propagating in a nonmagnetized medium is studied first. The problem is shown to be …

Stochastic heating in ultra high intensity laser-plasma interaction: Theory and PIC code simulations

D Patin, E Lefebvre, A Bourdier… - Laser and Particle …, 2006 - cambridge.org
In the first part, the theoretical model of the stochastic heating effect is presented briefly.
Then, a numerical resolution of the Hamilton equations highlights the threshold of the …

Radiation reaction effect on laser driven auto-resonant particle acceleration

V Sagar, S Sengupta, PK Kaw - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of radiation reaction force on laser driven auto-resonant particle acceleration
scheme are studied using Landau-Lifshitz equation of motion. These studies are carried out …

Dynamics of a charged particle in a progressive plane wave

A Bourdier - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2009 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a charged particle in a relativistic strong electromagnetic plane wave
propagating in a medium is studied. The problem is shown to be integrable when the wave …

Exact analysis of particle dynamics in combined field of finite duration laser pulse and static axial magnetic field

V Sagar, S Sengupta, P Kaw - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamics of a charged particle is studied in the field of a relativistically intense linearly
polarized finite duration laser pulse in the presence of a static axial magnetic field. For a …

Effect of polarization and focusing on laser pulse driven auto-resonant particle acceleration

V Sagar, S Sengupta, P Kaw - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of laser polarization and focusing is theoretically studied on the final energy gain
of a particle in the Auto-resonant acceleration scheme using a finite duration laser pulse with …

Mechanisms of electron injection into laser wakefields by a weak counter-propagating pulse

ZM Sheng, WM Wang, R Trines, P Norreys… - The European Physical …, 2009 - Springer
Numerical studies are conducted on the electron injection into the first acceleration bucket of
a laser wakefield by a weak counter-propagating laser pulse. It is shown that there are two …

[PDF][PDF] Non-Newtonian mechanics of oscillation centers

IY Dodin, NJ Fisch, PK Shukla, B Eliasson… - AIP Conference …, 2008 - indico.ictp.it
Classical particles oscillating in high-frequency or static fields effectively exhibit a modified
rest mass meff which determines the guiding center motion. Unlike the true mass, meff …

Adiabatic formulation of charged particle dynamics in an inhomogeneous electro-magnetic field

V Sagar, S Sengupta, P Kaw - Laser and Particle Beams, 2013 - cambridge.org
The relativistic motion of a charged particle is studied in an inhomogeneous field of finite
duration laser pulse. An inhomogeneity in a laser field is due to the spatial variation of laser …