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The Maxwell equations based 3D analytical solution for the terahertz half-cycle electromagnetic wave transition radiation pulse has been found. This solution describes generation and propagation of transition radiation into free space from laser-produced relativistic electron bunch crossing a target-vacuum interface as a result of ultrashort laser pulse interaction with a thin high-conductivity target. The analytical solution found complements the theory of laser initiated transition radiation by describing the generated THz wave shape at the arbitrary distance from the generating target surface domain including near-field zone rather than the standard far-field characterization. The analytical research has also been supplemented with the 3D simulations using the finite-diference time-domain (FDTD) method, which makes it possible for description of much wider spatial domain as compared to that from the particle-in-cell (PIC) approach. The results reported fundamentally shed light on the interfere of an electron bunch field and THz field of broadband transition radiation from laser-plasma interaction studied for a long time in the experiments with solid density plasma and may in future inspire them to targeted measurements and investigations of unique super intense half-cycle THz radiation waves near the laser target.

To maximize the charge of a high-energy electron beam accelerated by an ultra-intense laser pulse propagating in a subcritical plasma, the pulse length should be longer than both the plasma wavelength and the laser pulse width, which is quite different from the standard bubble regime. In addition, the laser--plasma parameters should be chosen to produce the self-trapping regime of relativistic channeling, where the diffraction divergence is balanced by the relativistic nonlinearity such that the laser beam radius is unchanged during pulse propagation in a plasma over many Rayleigh lengths. The condition for such a self-trapping regime is the same as what was empirically found in several previous simulation studies in the form of the pulse width matching condition. Here, we prove these findings for a subcritical plasma, where the total charge of high-energy electrons reaches the multi-nC level, by optimization in a 3D PIC simulation study and compare the results with an analytic theory of relativistic self-focusing. A very efficient explicitly demonstrated generation of high-charge electron beams opens a way to a high-yield production of gammas, positrons, and photonuclear particles., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures

An effective scheme of synchronized laser-triggered ion acceleration and the corresponding theoretical model are proposed for a slow light pulse of relativistic intensity, which penetrates into a near-critical-density plasma, strongly slows, and then increases its group velocity during propagation within a target. The 3D PIC simulations confirm this concept for proton acceleration by a femtosecond petawatt-class laser pulse experiencing relativistic self-focusing, quantify the characteristics of the generated protons, and demonstrate a significant increase of their energy compared with the proton energy generated from optimized ultrathin solid dense foils., Comment: submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett

Approximately 10 years ago, the method of renormalization-group symmetries entered the field of boundary value problems of classical mathematical physics, stemming from the concepts of functional self-similarity and of the Bogoliubov renormalization group treated as a Lie group of continuous transformations. Overwhelmingly dominating practical quantum field theory calculations, the renormalization-group method formed the basis for the discovery of the asymptotic freedom of strong nuclear interactions and underlies the Grand Unification scenario. This paper describes the logical framework of a new algorithm based on the modern theory of transformation groups and presents the most interesting results of application of the method to differential and/or integral equation problems and to problems that involve linear functionals of solutions. Examples from nonlinear optics, kinetic theory, and plasma dynamics are given, where new analytical solutions obtained with this algorithm have allowed describing the singularity structure for self-focusing of a laser beam in a nonlinear medium, studying generation of harmonics in weakly inhomogeneous plasma, and investigating the energy spectra of accelerated ions in expanding plasma bunches., Comment: 33 pages, 1 figure. This is a contribution to Physics-Uspekhi v.51 (2008) p.815 with modest technical and stylistic corrections introduced mainly in the first two Sections

The paper contains generalization of the renormgroup algorithm for boundary value problems of mathematical physics and related concept of the renormgroup symmetry, formulated earlier by authors with reference to models based on differential equations. These algorithm and symmetry are formulated now for models with non local (integral) equations. We discuss in detail and illustrate by examples applications of the generalized algorithm to models with not local terms which appear as linear functionals of the solution., Comment: 28 pages, 3 figures

Classical Lie group theory provides a universal tool for calculating symmetry groups for systems of differential equations. However Lie's method is not as much effective in the case of integral or integro-differential equations as well as in the case of infinite systems of differential equations. This paper is aimed to survey the modern approaches to symmetries of integro-differential equations. As an illustration, an infinite symmetry Lie algebra is calculated for a system of integro-differential equations, namely the well-known Benney equations. The crucial idea is to look for symmetry generators in the form of canonical Lie-Backlund operators., Comment: Latex2e, 21 pages, typos corrected

We made an analysis of the equations of motion which are obtained from the one - loop effective action for Brans-Dicke gravity with N dilaton - coupled massless fermions in a time-dependent conformally flat background. Various particular solutions, including the well-known stationary one, of the corresponding set of first-order differential equations are given. Some of these solutions describe an expanding time-dependent Universe with increasing, constant or also decreasing dilaton. This is illustrated by a numerical analysis. For the nonstationary solutions a stability analysis is given., Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures; corrected typos in author's name

An original regular approach to constructing special type symmetries for boundary value problems, namely renormgroup symmetries, is presented. Different methods of calculating these symmetries, based on modern group analysis are described. Application of the approach to boundary value problems is demonstrated with the help of a simple mathematical model., Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX LATeX file, to appear in Journal of Mathematical Physics