Bunch: Thomson scattering from laser electron-bunch interaction
Section author: Richard Pausch <r.pausch (at) hzdr.de>
Module author: Richard Pausch <r.pausch (at) hzdr.de>, Rene Widera <r.widera (at) hzdr.de>
This is a simulation of an electron bunch that collides head-on with a laser pulse. Depending on the number of electrons in the bunch, their momentum and their distribution and depending on the laser wavelength and intensity, the emitted radiation differs. A general description of this simulation can be found in [PauschDipl]. A detailed analysis of this bunch simulation can be found in [Pausch13]. A theoretical study of the emitted radiation in head-on laser electron collisions can be found in [Esarey93].
This test simulates an electron bunch with a relativistic gamma factor of gamma=5.0 and with a laser with a_0=1.0. The resulting radiation should scale with the number of real electrons (incoherent radiation).
References
Richard Pausch. Electromagnetic Radiation from Relativistic Electrons as Characteristic Signature of their Dynamics, Diploma Thesis TU Dresden (2012), https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=38997
R. Pausch, A. Debus, R. Widera, K. Steiniger, A. Huebl, H. Burau, M. Bussmann, U. Schramm. How to test and verify radiation diagnostics simulations within particle-in-cell frameworks, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.073
E. Esarey, S. Ride, P. Sprangle. Nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from beams and plasmas, Physical Review E (1993), http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.48.3003