title: Detecting radiation reaction at moderate laser intensities.
abstract: We propose a new method of detecting radiation reaction effects in the motion of particles subjected to laser pulses of moderate intensity and long duration. The effect becomes sizable for particles that gain almost no energy through the interaction with the laser pulse. Hence, there are regions of parameter space in which radiation reaction is actually the dominant influence on charged particle motion.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematics, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heinzl
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.|Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ilderton
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.|Department of Physics, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marklund
authors.affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Stepan S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Bulanov
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rykovanov
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Carl B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Schroeder
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Esarey
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Wim P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Leemans