Rescattering effects in laser-assisted electron-atom bremsstrahlung

Authors

• A. N. Zheltukhin, Voronezh State University, RussiaFollow
• A. V. Flegel, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia
• M. V. Frolov, Voronezh State University, RussiaFollow
• N. L. Manakov, Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394006 RussiaFollow
• Anthony F. Starace, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-16-2015

Citation

Published in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 48 (2015) 075202; doi:10.1088/0953-4075/48/7/075202 (15pp).

Since IOP does not permit deposit of their PDF version, archived here is the version, dated Feb. 5, 2015 (v.2) from arXiv.org at http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01263v2

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Abstract

Rescattering effects in non-resonant spontaneous laser-assisted electron–atom bremsstrahlung (LABrS) are analyzed within the framework of time-dependent effective-range (TDER) theory. It is shown that high energy LABrS spectra exhibit rescattering plateau structures that are similar to those that are well-known in strong field laser-induced processes as well as those that have been predicted theoretically in laser-assisted collision processes. In the limit of a low-frequency laser field, an analytic description of LABrS is obtained from a rigorous quantum analysis of the exact TDER results for the LABrS amplitude. This amplitude is represented as a sum of factorized terms involving three factors, each having a clear physical meaning. The first two factors are the exact field-free amplitudes for electron–atom bremsstrahlung and for electron– atom scattering, and the third factor describes free electron motion in the laser field along a closed trajectory between the first (scattering) and second (rescattering) collision events. Finally, an extension of these TDER results to the case of LABrS in a Coulomb field is discussed.