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Keldysh Institute preprints, 2017 076, 24 pp. (Mi ipmp2292)

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Numerical and analytical study of the electron heating by plasma waves

A. V. Bobylev, V. Yu. Bychenkov, I. F. Potapenko


Abstract: Electron heating and acceleration by wakefield caused by the laser pulse is studied with help of the space nonuniform Fokker–Planck equation. Relativistic intense laser pulse propagates in a plasma with prescribed values of density and quasi stationary plasma wave spectrum. Electron heating is considered in à frame of plasma-wave interaction on the base of quasilinear theory. Previous to front, the extending distribution function tails is building-up in the course of impulse propagation. Numerical solution has the coincident asymptotic form with the obtained analytical solution. The paper proceeds and evelops the previous work on the subject.

Keywords: relativistic laser pulse, induced Raman scattering, kinetic Fokker–Planck equation, stochastic diffusion, electron distribution function tails, analytic asymptotic solution.

DOI: 10.20948/prepr-2017-76



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