Radiation reaction at ultrahigh intensities
- 7 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 81 (6)
Abstract
Intensities of 1022~W cm-2 have been reached and it is expected that this will be increased by two orders of magnitude in the near future. At these intensities the radiation reaction force is important, especially in calculating the terminal velocity of an electron. The following briefly describes some of the problems of the existing most well-known equations and describes an approach based on conservation of energy. The resulting equation is compared to the Landau Lifshitz and Ford O'Connell equations, and laboratory tests are proposed.Keywords
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