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We identify a mechanism for magnetic field generation in the interaction of intense electromagnetic waves and underdense plasmas. We show that Raman scattered plasma waves trap and heat the electrons preferentially in their propagation…

The polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background radiation can be rotated either in a magnetized plasma or in the presence of a quintessential background with pseudoscalar coupling to electromagnetism. A unified treatment of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

The nonlinear propagation of low-frequency circularly polarized waves in a magnetized dusty plasma is analyzed. It is found that wave steepening and shock formation can take place due to the presence of nonlinear quantum vacuum effects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Marklund , D. D. Tskhakaya , P. K. Shukla

Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limited by the requirement of sufficiently dense mode spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

We show using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and theoretical analysis that a high-quality electron beam whose density is modulated at angstrom scales can be generated directly using density downramp injection in a periodically modulated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Xinlu Xu , Fei Li , Frank S. Tsung , Kyle Miller , Vitaly Yakimenko , Mark J. Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren B. Mori

A systematic numerical study of wake potential and ion density distribution of a single grain in streaming ions under the influence of the magnetic field applied along flow is presented. Strong magnetic field introduces ion focus depletion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Sita Sundar

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

In this paper, the nonlinear mode conversion of extraordinary waves in nonuniform magnetized plasmas is studied using the variational symplectic particle-in-cell simulation. The accuracy of the nonlinear simulation is guaranteed by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jianyuan Xiao , Jian Liu , Hong Qin , Zhi Yu , Nong Xiang

Particle acceleration in the magnetic reconnection of electron-positron plasmas is studied by using a particle-in-cell simulation. It is found that a significantly large number of nonthermal particles are generated by the inductive electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-03 S. Zenitani , M. Hoshino

Laser-triggered ionization injection is a promising way of generating controllable high-quality electrons in plasma-based acceleration. We show that ionization injection of electrons into a fully nonlinear plasma wave wake using a laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xinlu Xu , Jorge Vieira , Mark Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren Mori

We analyzed properties of waves excited by mildly relativistic electron beams propagating along magnetic field with a ring-shape perpendicular momentum distribution in neutral and current-free solar coronal plasmas. These plasmas are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 X. Zhou , P. A. Muñoz , J. Büchner , S. Liu

We predict the existence of new nonlinear electromagnetic wave modes in pair plasmas. The plasma may be either non-magnetized or immersed in an external magnetic field. The existence of these modes depends on the interaction of an intense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla , Gert Brodin , Lennart Stenflo

A unified theoretical description is developed for the formation of an ionized filament channel in a dense-gas medium and the evolution of electronic degrees of freedom in this channel in the laser pulse wake, as illustrated on an example…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Dmitri A. Romanov , Robert J. Levis

Some features of the field induced phase transition accompanied by the vacuum creation of an electron-positron plasma (EPP) in strong time-dependent electric fields have been discussed in the work [1] in the domain of the tunneling…

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Solutions of a kinetic equation are investigated which describe, on a nonperturbative basis, the vacuum creation of quasiparticle electron-positron pairs due to a strong laser field. The dependence of the quasiparticle electron (positron)…

Magnetosonic waves propagating perpendicular to an external magnetic field are studied with attention to the effect of multiple ion species. First, power spectra of magnetic field fluctuations and autocorrelation functions in thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mieko Toida , Takashi Yoshiya , Yukiharu Ohsawa

Plasmas generated using energetic electron beams are well known for their low electron temperature ($T_{e}$) and plasma potential, which makes them attractive for atomic-precision plasma processing applications such as atomic layer etch and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Shahid Rauf , D. Sydorenko , S. Jubin , W. Villafana , S. Ethier , A. Khrabrov , I. Kaganovich

This study presents theoretical and numerical investigation of the coupled longitudinal and radial wakefields excited by ultrarelativistic electron beams propagating through a cold plasma channel subjected to an external axial magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Ali Asghar Molavi Choobini , Mehran Shahmansouri

There has been significant interest lately in the study of Electromagnetic (EM) waves interacting with magnetized plasmas. The variety of resonances and the existence of several pass and stop bands in the dispersion curve for different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Trishul Dhalia , Rohit Juneja , Amita Das