2.5 Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Plasma Collisions
Astrophysics
2008-03-11 v1
Abstract
We use electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell codes to investigate the two-stream instability and Weibel instability when two beams of plasma collide head-on relativistically. We compare the dissipation of kinetic energies in the two cases. We also study the evolution of the resultant electron energy distribution function produced by such dissipation.
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@article{arxiv.0803.1201,
title = {2.5 Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Plasma Collisions},
author = {Orestes P. Hastings and Edison Liang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1201},
year = {2008}
}
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20 pages, 22 figures