@inproceedings{ab621ed1cc3e4f468f10daa8717b3cf6,
title = "Electron heating effect on self-induced-transparency threshold in ultra-intense laser pulse interaction with overdense plasmas",
abstract = "Restricting attention to circularly-polarized pulses, we undertake a systematic comparison of 1D-3V PIC-simulation results to predictions of a cold-fluid model for the threshold of relativistic self induced transparency in overdense plasmas. We find that kinetic effects, such as longitudinal electron heating, dominate the process at high laser intensity, causing electrons to escape into the vacuum and leading to an increase of the effective critical density compared to the predictions of the cold-fluid model. We interpret our results through a dynamical systems' study of single electron phase space at the plasma-vacuum interface.",
author = "E. Siminos and M. Grech and S. Skupin and T. Schlegel and Tikhonchuk, \{V. T.\}",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781622769810",
series = "39th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2012, EPS 2012 and the 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics",
pages = "966--969",
booktitle = "39th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2012, EPS 2012 and the 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics",
note = "39th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2012, EPS 2012 and the 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics ; Conference date: 02-07-2012 Through 06-07-2012",
}