High-order corrections to the radiation-free dynamics of an electron in the strongly radiation-dominated regime

TL;DR

This paper introduces a set of reduced equations to accurately describe electron dynamics in the strongly radiation-dominated regime across various electromagnetic field configurations, capturing essential features missed by previous approximations.

Contribution

It develops a novel reduced equation framework for electron motion in high-radiation regimes, applicable to arbitrary electromagnetic fields, improving upon prior radiation-free models.

Findings

The approach accurately describes electron behavior in rotating fields.

It captures dynamics in plasma wakefield acceleration.

Results are consistent with quantum and semi-classical simulations.

Abstract

A system of reduced equations is proposed for the electron motion in the strongly-radiation dominated regime for an arbitrary electromagnetic field configuration. The developed approach is used to analyze various scenarios of an electron dynamics in the strongly-radiation dominated regime: motion in rotating electric and magnetic fields, longitudinal acceleration in a plane wave and in a plasma wakefield. The obtained results show that the developed approach is able to describe features of the electron dynamics, which are essential to a certain scenario, but which could not be captured in the framework of the original radiation-free approximation [A. S. Samsonov et al., Phys. Rev. A 98, 053858 (2018); A. Gonoskov and M. Marklund, Phys. Plasmas 25, 093109 (2018)]. The results are verified by numerical integration of non-reduced motion equations with account of radiation reaction in both semi-classical and fully quantum cases.