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Global particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of pulsar magnetospheres are performed with a volume, surface and pair production-based plasma injection schemes to systematically investigate the transition between electrosphere and force-free…

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Unimolecular gas phase chemical reactions could be activated by both infrared (IR) radiation and inter-molecular collision in the interstellar environment. Understanding the interplay and competition between the radiation and collision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Xiaorui Zhao , Rui Ming Zhang , Xuefei Xu , Haitao Xu

The aim of this paper is to highlight a recently proposed method for the treatment of classical radiative effects, in particular radiation reaction, via effective field theory methods. We emphasize important features of the method, and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-22 Ofek Birnholtz , Shahar Hadar , Barak Kol

The effects of radiation reaction (RR) have been studied extensively by using the ultraintense laser interacts with the counter-propagating relativistic electron. At the laser intensity at the order of $10^{23}$ W/cm$^2$, the effects of RR…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 J. F. Ong , T. Moritaka , H. Takabe

Ionization is critical in the formation and evolution of plasma dynamics; collisional ionization, in particular, is an often overlooked source of electrons when dealing with laser-plasma interactions. Ionization plays a crucial role in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Stephen DiIorio , Ricardo Fonseca , Frank Tsung , Benjamin J. Winjum , Alec G. R. Thomas

Classical radiation reaction is the effect of the electromagnetic field emitted by an accelerated electric charge on the motion of the charge itself. The self-consistent underlying classical equation of motion including radiation-reaction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Di Piazza , T. N. Wistisen , U. I. Uggerhøj

The effects of radiation reaction force on laser driven auto-resonant particle acceleration scheme are studied using Landau-Lifshitz equation of motion. These studies are carried out for both linear as well as circularly polarized laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Vikram Sagar , Sudip Sengupta , P. K. Kaw

Numerical heating in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes currently precludes the accurate simulation of cold, relativistic plasma over long periods, severely limiting their applications in astrophysical environments. We present a spatially…

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is a well-established and widely used kinetic plasma modelling approach that provides a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian approach to solve the plasma kinetic equation. Despite its power in capturing details of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

Radiation reaction (RR) is a fundamental yet incompletely validated process in laser-particle interactions, since it lacks quantitatively definitive experimental verifications, especially the transition from classical to quantum regime.…

Soon available multi petawatt ultra-high-intensity (UHI) lasers will allow us to probe high-amplitude electromagnetic fields interacting with either ultra-relativistic electron beams or hot plasmas in the so-called moderately quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 F. Niel , C. Riconda , F. Amiranoff , M. Lobet , J. Derouillat , F. Pérez , T. Vinci , M. Grech

Radiation reaction, the force experienced by an accelerated charge due to radiation emission, has long been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental research. Experimental verification of a quantum, strong-field description of…

To include the bound electron effects in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation, we propose a model in which the response of the dipole components of partially ionized ions to external electromagnetic fields can be included. Instead of treating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Xiangyan An , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Jie Zhang

We investigate the effect of radiation reaction on the motion of a wave packet of a charged scalar particle linearly accelerated in quantum electrodynamics. We give the details of the calculations for the case where the particle is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Atsushi Higuchi , Giles D. R. Martin

In the wake of the intense effort made for the experimental CILEX project, numerical simulation cam- paigns have been carried out in order to finalize the design of the facility and to identify optimal laser and plasma parameters. These…

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Advances in ultra-intense laser technology are enabling, for the first time, relativistic intensities at mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelengths. Anticipating further experimental research in this domain, we present high-resolution two…

We present ab initio global general-relativistic Particle-in-cell (GR-PIC) simulations of compact millisecond neutron star magnetospheres in the axisymmetric aligned rotator configuration. We investigate the role of GR and plasma supply on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-11 R. Torres , T. Grismayer , F. Cruz , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We discuss radiation reaction effects on charges propagating in ultra-intense laser fields. Our analysis is based on an analytic solution of the Landau-Lifshitz equation. We suggest to measure radiation reaction in terms of a symmetry…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Harvey , T. Heinzl , M. Marklund

Using full-scale 3D particle-in-cell simulations we show that the radiation reaction dominated regime can be reached in an all optical configuration through the collision of a $\sim$1 GeV laser wakefield accelerated (LWFA) electron bunch…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Marija Vranic , Joana L. Martins , Jorge Vieira , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

The inexorable development of ever more powerful laser systems has re-ignited interest in electromagnetic radiation reaction and its significance for the collective behaviour of charged matter interacting with intense electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 David A Burton , Adam Noble