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A new quasi-neutral model describing the Weibel instability of a high-current relativistic beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. It treats beam electrons as kinetic particles, and ambient plasma as a non-relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anupam Karmakar , Naveen Kumar , Gennady Shvets , Oleg Polomarov , Alexander Pukhov

The topological properties of a magnetized cold gaseous plasma have recently been explored and the existence of topologically protected edge states has been established. These studies are limited to a magnetized plasma, where ions are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Roopendra Singh Rajawat , Tianhong Wang , Gennady Shvets

In this review we discuss some observational aspects and theoretical models of astrophysical collisionless shocks in partly ionized plasma with the presence of non-thermal components. A specific feature of fast strong collisionless shocks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Bykov , M. A. Malkov , J. C. Raymond , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , A. E. Vladimirov

We have used the Sagdeev pseudo-potential technique to investigate the arbitrary amplitude ion acoustic solitons, double layers and supersolitons in a collisionless magnetized plasma consisting of adiabatic warm ions, isothermal cold…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sandip Dalui , Sankirtan Sardar , Anup Bandyopadhyay

Two decades after the invention of chirped pulse amplification the physical mechanism of collisionless absorption of intense laser radiation in overdense matter is still not sufficiently well understood. We show that anharmonic resonance in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 P. Mulser , D. Bauer , H. Ruhl

Compressional waves propagating in the partially ionised solar lower atmospheric plasmas can easily steepen into nonlinear waves, including shocks. Here we investigate the effect of weak dispersion generated by Hall currents perpendicular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 I. Ballai , E. Forgacs-Dajka , A. Marcu

We present a Vlasov, i.e. a kinetic Eulerian simulation study of nonlinear collisionless ion-acoustic shocks and solitons excited by an intense laser interacting with an overdense plasma. The use of the Vlasov code avoids problems with low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Grassi , Luca Fedeli , Andrea Sgattoni , Andrea Macchi

The criticism by W. E. Lamb, W. Schleich, M. Scully, C. Townes of a simplified quantum electrodynamics which represents the photon as a true particle is illustrated. Collisions being absent in low-pressure gas, exchanges of energy are…

General Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Jacques Moret-Bailly

The dispersion characteristics of an circularly polarized electromagnetic wave of arbitrary amplitude, propagating in a highly (thermally and kinematically) relativistic plasma, are shown to approach those of a linear wave in an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Swadesh Mahajan , Manasvi Lingam

Plasma processes close to SNR shocks result in the amplification of magnetic fields and in the acceleration of electrons, injecting them into the diffusive acceleration mechanism. The acceleration of electrons and the B field amplification…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 M E Dieckmann , G Murphy , A Meli , L O C Drury

Properties of modified plasma waves in non-linear electrodynamics are investigated. We consider a cold, uniform, collisionless, and magnetized plasma model. Initially, we also assume small amplitude waves and the non-relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Leonardo P. R. Ospedal , Fernando Haas

Collisionless, turbulent plasmas surround the Earth, from the magnetosphere to the intergalactic medium, and the fluctuations within them affect nearly every field in the space sciences, from space weather forecasts to theories of galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Keyan Gootkin , Colby Haggerty , Damiano Caprioli , Zachary Davis

We study the interaction of two counter-propagating electromagnetic waves in vacuum in the Born-Infeld electrodynamics. First we investigate the Born case for linearly polarized beams, ${\bf E}\cdot{\bf B}=0$, i. e. $\mathfrak{G}^2=0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Hedvika Kadlecová

The propagation of electrostatic waves in a three-component electron positron ion astrophysical quantum plasma under the influence of uniform rotation is analysed, incorporating the effects of particle spin, Fermi pressure, and the quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Atherv Saxena , Punit Kumar

The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel Saucedo , Uday Lamba , Hasitha Mahabaduge

Magnetosonic waves are intensively studied due to their importance in space plasmas and also in fusion plasmas where they are used in particle acceleration and heating experiments. In the present paper we investigate the magnetosonic waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. Boldyrev

In most classical fluids, shock waves are strongly dissipative, their energy being quickly lost through viscous damping. But in systems such as cold plasmas, superfluids, and Bose-Einstein condensates, where viscosity is negligible or…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjie Wan , Shu Jia , Jason W. Fleischer

A numerical study on ion acceleration in electrostatic shock waves is presented, with the aim of determining the best plasma configuration to achieve quasi-monoenergetic ion beams in laser-driven systems. It was recently shown that tailored…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 E. Boella , F. Fiúza , A. Stockem Novo , R. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

Relativistic collisionless shocks in electron-ion plasma are thought to occur in the afterglow phase of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), and in other environments where relativistic flows interact with the interstellar medium. A particular regime…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anatoly Spitkovsky

Some essential features of the ion plasma wave in both kinetic and fluid descriptions are presented. The wave develops at wavelengths shorter than the electron Debye radius. Thermal motion of electrons at this scale is such that they…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 J. Vranjes , M. Kono