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Stern-Gerlach surfing in laser wakefield accelerators

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>25/09/2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters A
Issue number36
Volume379
Number of pages9
Pages (from-to)1966-1974
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date26/06/15
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We investigate the effects of a Stern-Gerlach-type addition to the Lorentz force on electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator. The Stern-Gerlach-type terms are found to generate a family of trajectories describing electrons that surf along the plasma density wave driven by a laser pulse. Such trajectories could lead to an increase in the size of an electron bunch, which may have implications for attempts to exploit such bunches in future free electron lasers.

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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license