Overview
- Offers a comprehensively updated review of the subject of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics
- Reflects recent developments stimulated by new laser sources of relativistic and ultrarelativistic intensities
- Includes new chapters on emerging topics such as the interaction of strong laser radiation with Graphene
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 88)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Electron–Positron pair production
- Free electron lasers
- Induced nonlinear Cherenkov process
- Intense laser radiation
- Interaction of charged particles with strong fields
- Laser interaction with Graphene
- Laser-plasma accelerators
- Pair production in strong laser fields
- Relativistic and ultra-relativistic laser intensities
- Relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics
- Superintense radiation in plasmas
About this book
This revised edition of the author’s classic 2006 text offers a comprehensively updated review of the field of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics. It explores the interaction of strong and super-strong electromagnetic/laser radiation with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and diverse types of matter – including free charged particles and antiparticles, acceleration beams, plasma and plasmous media. The appearance of laser sources of relativistic and ultra-relativistic intensities over the last decade has stimulated investigation of a large class of processes under such super-strong radiation fields.
Revisions for this second edition reflect these developments and the book includes new chapters on Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear absorption of superintense radiation in plasmas, the nonlinear interaction of relativistic atoms with intense laser radiation, nonlinear interaction of strong laser radiation with Graphene, and relativistic nonlinear phenomena in solid-plasma targets under supershort laser pulses of ultrarelativistic intensities.
The only book devoted to the subject of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics, this second edition will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers involved in any aspect of the field, including those working with intense x-ray – gamma-ray lasers, the new generation of small size laser-plasma accelerators of superhigh energies and high-brightness particle beams.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relativistic Nonlinear Electrodynamics
Book Subtitle: The QED Vacuum and Matter in Super-Strong Radiation Fields
Authors: Hamlet Karo Avetissian
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26384-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26382-3Published: 02 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33057-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26384-7Published: 20 November 2015
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 506
Number of Illustrations: 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Classical Electrodynamics, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering