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Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Inst. for Fusion Studies, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 674811
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/54346-836
ON: DE99000293; TRN: AHC29820%%266
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-96ER54346
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 20 Aug 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 66 PHYSICS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; ACCELERATION; ENERGY SPECTRA; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES
Citation Formats
Tajima, T, and Takahashi, Y. Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays. United States: N. p., 1998.
Web. doi:10.2172/674811.
Tajima, T, & Takahashi, Y. Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/674811
Tajima, T, and Takahashi, Y. 1998.
"Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/674811. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/674811.
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title = {Laboratory laser acceleration and high energy astrophysics: {gamma}-ray bursts and cosmic rays},
author = {Tajima, T and Takahashi, Y},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.2172/674811},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/674811},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 1998},
month = {Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 1998}
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