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Two laser-plasma processes among several others, namely the formation of relativistic electromagnetic solitons in warm plasmas and the ion acceleration driven by the interaction of ultraintense and ultrafast laser pulses with thin solid targets, have attracted great scientific interest in the last few years, both from a fundamental point of view and also in the light of the expected future technological applications. In this chapter, these two physical phenomena are presented and discussed, and the currently available theoretical descriptions are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the analytical approaches, which allow to model the underlying physics in a transparent way and to give scaling laws with the laser and the plasma parameters. Emphasis is given to the discussion of the possible different regimes, which can characterize these processes, and to the identification of the most suitable theoretical treatments in the various cases.
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Lontano, M., Passoni, M. (2007). Ultraintense Electromagnetic Radiation in Plasmas: Part II. Relativistic Electromagnetic Solitons and Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration. In: Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 85. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38156-3_17
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