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Relativistic self-focusing and channeling of intense laser pulses have been studied in underdense plasma using 2D PIC simulations, for different laser powers and plasma densities. Analytical solutions for the stationary evacuated channels…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Naseri , S. G. Bochkarev , W. Rozmus

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B Thomas , Roddy G L Vann

Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering, e.g. to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high-intensity laser facilities, laser-plasma-based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lars Reichwein , Zheng Gong , Chuan Zheng , Liangliang Ji , Alexander Pukhov , Markus Büscher

3D particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that the enhanced transparency of a relativistically hot plasma is sensitive to how the energy is partitioned between different degrees of freedom. For an anisotropic electron distribution,…

Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell simulations, we study decaying turbulence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-21 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

The quasi-channeling of positive and negative relativistic particles in a bent crystal is studied using the classical deflection function. It was shown that the potential scattering in a central field of bounded ring-like potentials may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 Gennady V. Kovalev

In this paper, we consider the effect of interactions on the local, average polarization of a quantum plasma of massless fermion particles characterized by vector, axial, and helical quantum numbers. Due to the helical and axial vortical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Sergio Morales-Tejera , Victor E. Ambruş , Maxim N. Chernodub

We propose and discuss an alternative pulsar radio emission mechanism that relies on rotation-driven plasma oscillations, rather than on a beam-driven instability, and suggest that it may be the generic radio emission mechanism for pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 D. B. Melrose , M. Z. Rafat , A. Mastrano

We study plasma effects on radiative transitions (e.g., decay of excited states of atoms or atomic nuclei) in a dense plasma at the transition frequencies $\omega \lesssim \omega_p$ (where $\omega_p$ is the electron plasma frequency). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-30 P. S. Shternin , D. G. Yakovlev

Clear evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of magnetic fluctuations in the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hantao Ji , Stephen Terry , Masaaki Yamada , Russell Kulsrud , Aleksey Kuritsyn , Yang Ren

Axion like particles (ALPs) are fundamental pseudo scalar particles with properties similar to Axions which are a well-known extension of the standard model to solve the strong CP problem in Quantum Chromodynamics. ALPs can oscillate into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-30 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

Understanding and interpretation of the dynamics of ultrarelativistic plasma is a challenge, which calls for the development of methods for \textit{in situ} probing the plasma dynamical characteristics. We put forward a new method,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Centrifugal plasma traps, in which plasma is confined partly by centrifugal forces, represent a possible path to fusion energy production. In centrifugal plasma traps, electric fields naturally arise in the direction parallel to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , N. J. Fisch

Stimulated Raman backscattering (RBS) of intense laser radiation confined by a single-mode plasma channel with a radial variation of plasma frequency greater than a homogeneous-plasma RBS bandwidth is characterized by a strong transverse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serguei Kalmykov , Gennady Shvets

High-energy particles stream during coronal mass ejections or flares through the plasma of the solar wind. This causes instabilities, which lead to wave growth at specific resonant wave numbers, especially within shock regions. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 Sebastian Lange , Felix Spanier , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio , Timo Laitinen

In this work we used Particle-In-Cell simulations to study the interaction of circularly polarised Alfv\'en waves with one dimensional plasma density inhomogeneities transverse to the uniform magnetic field (phase mixing) in collisionless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri , Jun-Ichi Sakai , Shinji Saito

Efficient relativistic turbulent acceleration of particles is indicated by recent astrophysical observations. The Type II mechanism with acceleration due to the temporal variations of magnetic field strengths remains underexplored. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Saikat Das , Siyao Xu , Joonas Nättilä

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and magnetic field resonance acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Liu , X. T. He , S. G. Chen , W. Y. Zhang

The beamed radio emission from relativistic plasma (particles or bunches), constrained to move along the curved trajectories, occurs in the direction of velocity. We have generalized the coherent curvature radiation model to include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 R. T. Gangadhara

The problem of electromagnetic pulses propagation in plasma was studied in connection with various problems of radio engineering and radar systems. The description of propagation such signals is based on exactly solvable problems for…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-27 P. A. Golovinski , V. A. Astapenko , E. S. Manuylovich