Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Recent experimental progress in laser acceleration of charged particles (electrons) and its associated processes has shown that intense electromagnetic pulses can promptly accelerate charged particles to high energies and that their energy spectrum is quite hard. On the other hand some of the high energy astrophysical phenomena such as extremely high energy cosmic rays and energetic components of {gamma}-ray bursts cry for new physical mechanisms for promptly accelerating particles to high energies. The authors suggest that the basic physics involved in laser acceleration experiments sheds light on some of the underlying mechanisms and their energy spectral characteristics of the promptly accelerated particles in these high energy astrophysical phenomena.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Texas, Inst. for Fusion Studies, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-96ER54346
- OSTI ID:
- 674811
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/54346-836; ON: DE99000293; TRN: AHC29820%%266
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 20 Aug 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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