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All-optical suppression of relativistic self-focusing of laser beams in plasmas
It is demonstrated that a catastrophic relativistic self-focusing (RSF) of a high-power laser pulse can be prevented all-optically by a second, much weaker, copropagating pulse. RSF suppression occurs when the difference frequency of the pulses slightly exceeds the electron plasma frequency. The mutual defocusing is caused by the three-dimensional electron density perturbation driven by the laser beat wave slightly above the plasma resonance. A bienvelope model describing the early stage of the mutual defocusing is derived and analyzed. Later stages, characterized by the presence of a strong electromagnetic cascade, are investigated numerically. Stable propagation of the laser pulse with weakly varying spot size and peak amplitude over several Rayleigh lengths is predicted.U.S. Department of Energy DE-FG02-04ER54763 DE-FG02-04ER41321 DE-FG02-07ER54945NSF PHY-0114336Physic
Analytic Model Of Electron Self-Injection In A Plasma Wakefield Accelerator In The Strongly Nonlinear Bubble Regime
Self-injection of background electrons in plasma wakefield accelerators in the highly nonlinear bubble regime is analyzed using particle-in-cell and semi-analytic modeling. It is shown that the return current in the bubble sheath layer is crucial for accurate determination of the trapped particle trajectories.Physic
Monoenergetic Acceleration Of A Target Foil By Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse In Rpa Regime Without Thermal Heating
A kinetic model of the monoenergetic acceleration of a target foil irradiated by the circularly polarized laser pulse is developed. The target moves without thermal heating with constant acceleration which is provided by chirping the frequency of the laser pulse and correspondingly increasing its intensity. In the accelerated reference frame, bulk plasma in the target is neutral and its parameters are stationery: cold ions are immobile while nonrelativistic electrons bounce back and forth inside the potential well formed by ponderomotive and electrostatic potentials. It is shown that a positive charge left behind of the moving target in the ion tail and a negative charge in front of the target in the electron sheath form a capacitor whose constant electric field accelerates the ions of the target. The charge separation is maintained by the radiation pressure pushing electrons forward. The scalings of the target thickness and electromagnetic radiation with the electron temperature are found.Physic
Flavor and CP Violation with Fourth Generations Revisited
The Standard Model predicts a very small CP violation phase %= \arg M_{12} \simeq \arg\,(V^*_{ts}V_{tb})^2B_s\bar B_s\lambda^2\eta\Phi_{B_s}\sin2\Phi_{B_s}t'\Delta m_{B_s}{\cal B}(B \to X_s\ell^+\ell^-)f_{B_s}\sin2\Phi^{\rm
SM4}_{B_s} \sim -0.33m_{b'} = 4800.06 < |V_{t'b}| < 0.13\Gamma(Z\to b\bar b)\Delta m_{D}{\cal
B}(K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu){\cal
B}(K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar\nu)V_{t'd}$.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
Recent star formation in high-redshift early-type galaxies: insights from the rest-frame UV
We combine deep UBVRIzJK photometry from the MUSYC survey with redshifts from
the COMBO-17 survey to study the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) properties of 674
high-redshift (0.5<z<1) early-type galaxies, drawn from the Extended Chandra
Deep Field South (E-CDFS). Galaxy morphologies are determined through visual
inspection of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images taken from the GEMS survey.
We harness the sensitivity of the UV to young (<1 Gyrs old) stars to quantify
the recent star formation history of the early-type population. We find
compelling evidence that early-types of all luminosities form stars over the
lifetime of the Universe, although the bulk of their star formation is already
complete at high redshift. Luminous (-23<M(V)<-20.5) early-types form 10-15
percent of their mass after z=1, while their less luminous (M(V)>-20.5)
counterparts form 30-60 percent of their mass in the same redshift range.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the IAU 245, eds. M. Bureau, E.
Athanassoula, and B. Barbu
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