Exact solutions in radiation reaction and the radiation-free direction

2021/02/28 by Robin Ekman, Tom Heinzl, Anton Ilderton · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Context (archaeology) #Electromagnetic radiation #Exact solutions in general relativity #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Particle (ecology) #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Radiation #hep-ph #physics.plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/abfab2

published as New J. Phys. 23 055001 (2021) · v3: typos corrected

openalex created_date 2021/03/01 · openalex publication_date 2021/05/01 · arxiv created 2022/03/22 · arxiv updated 2022/03/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present new exact solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz and higher-order Landau-Lifshitz equations describing particle motion, with radiation reaction, in intense electromagnetic fields. Through these solutions and others we compare the phenomenological predictions of different equations in the context of the conjectured `radiation-free direction' (RFD). We confirm analytically in several cases that particle orbits predicted by the Landau-Lifshitz equation indeed approach the RFD at extreme intensities, and give time-resolved signals of this behaviour in radiation spectra.

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