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The theory of Non-Linear Diffusive Shock Acceleration (NLDSA) predicts the formation of a precursor upstream of the shock, where accelerated particles diffuse and induce magnetic field amplification through streaming instability. The non…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Morlino , E. Amato , P. Blasi , D. Caprioli

We formulate a scaling theory for the long-time diffusive motion in a space occluded by a high density of moving obstacles in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. Our tracers diffuse anomalously over many decades in time, before reaching a diffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-22 H. Bendekgey , G. Huber , D. Yllanes

Radio relics in galaxy clusters are giant diffuse synchrotron sources powered in cluster outskirts by merger shocks. Although the relic-shock connection has been consolidated in recent years by a number of observations, the details of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 A. Botteon , G. Brunetti , D. Ryu , S. Roh

We investigate the impact of magnetic fields and diffusion mechanisms on the energy spectra of particles accelerated via diffusive shock acceleration. We analyse magnetised shock jump conditions and demonstrate how magnetisation and angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Anshuman Verma , Saksham Chandna , Divyansh Tripathi , Ritam Mallick

The structure of the pseudorapidity spectra of charged relativistic particles with beta > 0.7 measured in Au+Em and Pb+Em collisions at AGS and SPS energies are analyzed using Fourier transformation method and maximum entropy one. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-01-25 B. Z. Belashev , M. K. Suleymanov , S. Vokál , J. Vrláková , M. Ajaz , K. H. Khan , Ali Zaman , Z. Wazir

Dynamics of a charged relativistic particle in a uniform magnetic field and an obliquely propagating electrostatic shock wave is considered. The system is reduced to a two degrees of freedom Hamiltonian system with slow and fast variables.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Vasiliev

We use 2D and 3D hybrid (kinetic ions - fluid electrons) simulations to investigate particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification at non-relativistic astrophysical shocks. We show that diffusive shock acceleration operates for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The measurements of the centrality dependence of $dN/d\eta$ and transverse momentum spectra from mid- to forward rapidity in d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} =$ 200 GeV are reported. They provide a sensitive tool for understanding…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

Reaction-diffusion equations (RDEs) are often derived as continuum limits of lattice-based discrete models. Recently, a discrete model which allows the rates of movement, proliferation and death to depend upon whether the agents are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Matthew J. Simpson , Martin Wechselberger

Radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations provide us with strong evidence of particle acceleration to multi-TeV energies in various astrophysical sources. Diffusive shock acceleration is one of the most successful models explaining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Vannoni , S. Gabici , F. A. Aharonian

It has often been thought that the northern radio relic in the galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8+5301 (the "Sausage" Cluster) is associated with cosmic ray (CR) electrons that are accelerated at a shock through the diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-29 Yutaka Fujita , Hiroki Akamatsu , Shigeo S. Kimura

Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks is thought to be the source of many of the energetic particles observed in space. Large-scale spatial variations of the magnetic field has been shown to be important in understanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Guo , J. R. Jokipii , J. Kota

We have performed 2D hybrid simulations of non-relativistic collisionless shocks in the presence of pre-existing energetic particles ("seeds"); such a study applies, for instance, to the re-acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Damiano Caprioli , Horace Zhang , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We consider a particle moving in $d\geq 2$ dimensions, its velocity being a reversible diffusion process, with identity diffusion coefficient, of which the invariant measure behaves, roughly, like $(1+|v|)^{-\beta}$ as $|v|\to \infty$, for…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Nicolas Fournier , Camille Tardif

Collisionless shock waves, found in supernova remnants, interstellar, stellar, and planetary environments, and laboratories, are one of nature's most powerful particle accelerators. This study combines in situ satellite measurements with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Savvas Raptis , Ahmad Lalti , Martin Lindberg , Drew L. Turner , Damiano Caprioli , James L. Burch

Turbulent flows posses broadband, power-law spectra in which multiscale interactions couple high-wavenumber fluctuations to large-scale dynamics. Although diffusion-based generative models offer a principled probabilistic forecasting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-11 Anish Sambamurthy , Ashesh Chattopadhyay

This work investigates the evolution of the distribution of charged particles due to the mechanism of stochastic turbulent acceleration (STA) in presence of small-scale turbulence with a mean magnetic field. STA is usually modelled as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Sayan Kundu , Nishant Singh , Bhargav Vaidya

We provide a both qualitative and quantitative comparison among different approaches aimed to solve the problem of non-linear diffusive acceleration of particles at shocks. In particular, we show that state-of-the-art models (numerical,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 D. Caprioli , Hyesung Kang , A. Vladimirov , T. W. Jones

We calculate the temporal evolution of distributions of relativistic electrons subject to synchrotron and adiabatic processes and Fermi-like acceleration in shocks. The shocks result from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet. Shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , N. Zurlo , S. Massaglia , A. Ferrari , D. B. Melrose

We consider the diffusion of a non-relativistic heavy quark of fixed mass M, in a one-dimensionally expanding and strongly coupled plasma using the AdS/CFT duality. The Green's function constructed around a static string embedded in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Keun-Young Kim , Sang-Jin Sin , Ismail Zahed