Plasma acceleration and cooling by strong laser field due to the action of radiation reaction force.
It is shown that for super intense laser pulses propagating in a hot plasma, the action of the radiation reaction force (appropriately incorporated into the equations of motion) causes strong bulk plasma motion with the kinetic energy raised even to relativistic values; the increase in bulk energy is accompanied by a corresponding cooling (intense cooling) of the plasma. The effects are demonstrated through explicit analytical calculations.
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Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Tamarashvili 6, Tbilisi 0177, Georgia.
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