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Self-consistent radiative effect on relativistic electromagnetic particle acceleration

Astrophysics 2010-11-11 v2

Abstract

We study the radiation damping effect on the relativistic acceleration of electron-positron plasmas with two-and-half-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Particles are accelerated by Poynting flux via the diamagnetic relativistic pulse accelerator (DRPA), and decelerated by the self-consistently solved radiation damping force. With Ωce/ωpe10\Omega_{ce}/\omega_{pe}\geq 10, the Lorentz factor of the highest energy particles reaches gamma>100, and the acceleration still continues. The emitted radiation is peaked within few degrees from the direction of Poynting flux and strongly linearly polarized, which may be detectable in gamma-ray burst(GRB) observations. We also show that the DRPA is insensitive to the initial supporting currents.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504612,
  title  = {Self-consistent radiative effect on relativistic electromagnetic particle acceleration},
  author = {K. Noguchi and E. Liang and K. Nishimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504612},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

6pages, 4figures. Accepted for publication in Il nuovo cimento C