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Modulated laser-induced acceleration of a relativistic charged particle

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The acceleration of charged particles over short distances by a modulated laser pulse has promising applications in the development of advanced technology in fields such as material diagnostics and medicine. Herein, a mechanism is proposed to accelerate charged particles using multifrequency modulated circularly polarized laser pulses directed along the propagation direction of a constant uniform magnetic field. An exact analytical solution is obtained for the equation of motion of a relativistic charged particle in a modulated multifrequency electromagnetic field, and its phase-matching condition is observed. Upon investigation of several cases of initial conditions for the motion of a charged particle, oscillatory motion is revealed in the field of a modulated electromagnetic wave, which depends on the parameters of the modulated electromagnetic wave, as well as the translational motion of the particle. The condition for cyclotron auto-resonance in the field of an intense laser pulse is evaluated. Results indicate that the cyclotron auto-resonance is satisfied for nonrelativistic intensities of the laser field. Finally, the average kinetic energy in the field of a plane laser pulse and that in the field of a one-dimensional Gaussian beam are compared, showing that the former does not differ from the latter for any range of laser field intensities.

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The authors would like to thank Prof. Bagrov V. G. and Prof. Epp V. Ya. for their insightful comments.

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This work was partially supported by the Nantong Science and Technology Plan Project (Grant Nos. JC2020137, JC2020138), the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BE2021013-1), the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BK20201438), and in part by the Natural Science Research Project of Jiangsu Provincial Institutions of Higher Education (Grant Nos. 20KJA510002, 20KJB510010).

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  1. Research Center for Intelligent Information Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, 226019, People’s Republic of China

    Nikolai Akintsov

  2. College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, People’s Republic of China

    Nikolai Akintsov

  3. Department of Mathematical and Computer Methods, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia, 350040

    Artem Nevecheria

  4. Department of Radiophysics and Nanotechnology, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia, 350040

    Gennady Kopytov

  5. Department of Physics, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management Named after K.G. Razumovskiy, Moscow, 109004, Russia

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Akintsov, N., Nevecheria, A. & Kopytov, G. Modulated laser-induced acceleration of a relativistic charged particle. Indian J Phys 98, 1123–1137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-023-02855-0

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