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Beyond the ponderomotive limit: Direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas
We examine a regime in which a linearly polarized laser pulse with relativistic intensity irradiates a sub-critical plasma for much longer than the characteristic electron response time. A steady-state channel is formed in the plasma in this case with quasi-static transverse and longitudinal electric fields. These relatively weak fields significantly …