Open AccessMagnetic Field Assisted Electron Acceleration Due To Inverse Free Electron Laser
Author(s) -
Shubham Agarwal,
Niti Kant,
Jyoti Rajput
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1531/1/012042
Subject(s) - electron , atomic physics , laser , plasma , physics , magnetic field , acceleration , electromagnetic electron wave , excited state , waves in plasmas , free electron model , optics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics
Electron acceleration by an Inverse Free Electron Laser (IFEL) pulse in the presence of static magnetic field has been studied. With high intensity laser and plasma interaction, plasma wakefield can be excited which can be further utilized to accelerate injected electrons. Highly energetic laser interacting with plasma excites a wakefield in which injected relativistic electrons are trapped. The presence of static magnetic field provides the additional resonance to the trapped electrons, and the energy of laser is transferred to electrons effectively thereby, resulting in highly energetic electrons of higher energy gain.