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The dynamics of electrons in counter-propagating, circularly polarized laser beams are shown to exhibit attractors whose ability to trap particles depends on the ratio of the beam intensities and a single parameter describing radiation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 J. G. Kirk

The transport interaction rates of elastic scattering processes of thermal partons in the quark-gluon plasma are calculated beyond the leading logarithm approximation using the effective perturbation theory for QCD at finite temperatures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Markus H. Thoma

Spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-reaction regime. We develop a Monte-Carlo method to model electron radiative spin effects in…

The quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, is a strongly interacting many-body parton system. By comparison with strongly coupled electromagnetic plasmas (classical and non-relativistic) it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Markus H. Thoma

The current status of various thermal and statistical descriptions of particle production in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments is presented in detail. We discuss the formulation of various types of thermal models of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-06 S. K. Tiwari , C. P. Singh

We present a self-consistent kinetic description of an electron-positron-photon ($e^-e^+\gamma$) plasma generated from vacuum in a focal spot of counterpropagating laser pulses. We rely on a model of purely time-dependent external electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 S. A. Smolyansky , A. D. Panferov , S. O. Pirogov , A. M. Fedotov

The problem of electromagnetic emission generation in plasma with electron beams is relevant both for practical applications and for interpretation of radio emission processes in astrophysical systems. In this work, we consider the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Vladimir Annenkov , Evgeniia Volchok , Igor Timofeev

In this paper we study the polarization tensor of photons in a QED plasma in the presence of a magnetic field. We do it both at vanishing and at finite temperature. We use two different methods to compute the polarization tensor components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ulf H. Danielsson , Dario Grasso

The impact of stochasticity effects (SEs) in photon emissions on the proton energy spectra during laser-plasma interaction is theoretically investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime, which may facilitate SEs experimental…

We review the properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at finite temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ as created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The description of the strongly…

The role of entropy production in the context of probing QCD properties at high densities and finite temperatures in ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei is inspected. It is argued that the entropy generated in these reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Klaus Geiger

Plasma dynamics critically depends on density and temperature, thus well-controlled experimental realizations are essential benchmarks for theoretical models. The formation of an ultracold plasma can be triggered by ionizing a tunable…

Nonlinear propagation of purely stationary large amplitude electromagnetic (EM) solitary waves in a magnetized electron-positron (EP) plasma is studied using a fully relativistic two-fluid hydrodynamic model which accounts for physical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Gadadhar Banerjee , Sayantan Dutta , A. P. Misra

Incoherent photon emission by ultrarelativistic electrons in the normal incidence of a laser pulse on a foil is investigated by means of three-dimensional numerical simulations in the range of intensities $2 \times 10^{21} \text{--} 2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov , L. Ji , A. Pukhov

Numerical simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate the generation of axially polarized electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that radiate away energy with a characteristic frequency determined by the plasma frequency, in the THz range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Kathryn A. Wolfinger , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

Relativistic positron sources with high spin polarization have important applications in nuclear and particle physics and many frontier fields. However, it is challenging to produce dense polarized positrons. Here we present a simple and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Xing-Long Zhu , Wei-Yuan Liu , Tong-Pu Yu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Wei-Min Wang , Zheng-Ming Sheng

Collective excitations of N = 1 supersymmetric electromagnetic plasma are studied. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, not only equilibrium but also non-equilibrium plasma, which is assumed to be ultrarelativistic, is under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-15 Alina Czajka , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Experiments were performed to study electron acceleration by intense sub-picosecond laser pulses propagating in sub-mm long plasmas of near critical electron density (NCD). Low density foam layers of 300-500 um thickness were used as…

The paper is devoted to the prospects of using the laser radiation interaction with plasmas in the laboratory relativistic astrophysics context. We discuss the dimensionless parameters characterizing the processes in the laser and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , D. Habs , F. Pegoraro , T. Tajima

We demonstrated for the first time the production of highly polarized short-pulse positrons with a finite energy spread in accordance with a new scheme that consists of two-quantum processes, such as inverse Compton scatterings and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Omori , M. Fukuda , T. Hirose , Y. Kurihara , R. Kuroda , M. Nomura , A. Ohashi , T. Okugi , K. Sakaue , T. Saito , J. Urakawa , M. Washio , I. Yamazaki