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Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse

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Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse. / Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L. et al.
In: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, No. 2, 023111, 02.2016.

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Arefiev, AV, Khudik, VN, Robinson, APL, Shvets, G & Willingale, L 2016, 'Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse', Physics of Plasmas, vol. 23, no. 2, 023111. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942036

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Arefiev, A. V., Khudik, V. N., Robinson, A. P. L., Shvets, G., & Willingale, L. (2016). Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse. Physics of Plasmas, 23(2), Article 023111. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942036

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Arefiev AV, Khudik VN, Robinson APL, Shvets G, Willingale L. Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse. Physics of Plasmas. 2016 Feb;23(2):023111. Epub 2016 Feb 16. doi: 10.1063/1.4942036

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Arefiev, A. V. ; Khudik, V. N. ; Robinson, A. P. L. et al. / Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse. In: Physics of Plasmas. 2016 ; Vol. 23, No. 2.

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abstract = "An electron irradiated by a linearly polarized relativistic intensity laser pulse in a cylindrical plasma channel can gain significant energy from the pulse. The laser electric and magnetic fields drive electron oscillations in a plane making it natural to expect the electron trajectory to be flat. We show that strong modulations of the relativistic gamma-factor associated with the energy enhancement cause the free oscillations perpendicular to the plane of the driven motion to become unstable. As a consequence, out of plane displacements grow to become comparable to the amplitude of the driven oscillations and the electron trajectory becomes essentially three-dimensional, even if at an early stage of the acceleration it was flat. The development of the instability profoundly affects the x-ray emission, causing considerable divergence of the radiation perpendicular to the plane of the driven oscillations, while also reducing the overall emitted energy. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.",
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