Relativistic Spherical Wake Wave in Plasma. Relativistic focusing spherical mirror and Schwinger pair production

ORAL

Abstract

We report on the analytic and computer simulation study of a relativistic spherical wake wave. Such a wave in the breaking regime, traveling towards the center is able to reflect and focus the incoming radiation and up-shifting its frequency. The reflected and focused electromagnetic pulse can have such high intensity, that it is able to create $e^+e^-$ pairs via Schwinger process.

Authors

  • Stepan Bulanov

    • CUOS, University of Michigan
  • Anatoly Maksimchuk

    • CUOS, University of Michigan
  • Alexei Zhidkov

    • Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan