Non-perturbative aspects of particle acceleration in non-linear electrodynamics
arXiv:1501.04299 · doi:10.1063/1.4918363
Abstract
We undertake an investigation of particle acceleration in the context of non-linear electrodynamics. We deduce the maximum energy that an electron can gain in a non-linear density wave in a magnetised plasma, and we show that an electron can `surf' a sufficiently intense Born-Infeld electromagnetic plane wave and be strongly accelerated by the wave. The first result is valid for a large class of physically reasonable modifications of the linear Maxwell equations, whilst the second result exploits the special mathematical structure of Born-Infeld theory.
12 pages. Minor typos corrected to conform with Open Access journal version
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