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Ab-initio numerical study of collisionless shocks in electron-ion unmagnetized plasmas is performed with fully relativistic particle in cell simulations. The main properties of the shock are shown, focusing on the implications for particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 S. F. Martins , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva , W. B. Mori

We present simulations of magnetized astrophysical shocks taking into account the interplay between the thermal plasma of the shock and supra-thermal particles. Such interaction is depicted by combining a grid-based magneto-hydrodynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-02 Allard Jan van Marle , Fabien Casse , Alexandre Marcowith

Electric field dynamics at a positive ion imbedded in an electron gas is considered using a semiclassical description. The dependence of the field autocorrelation function on charge number is studied for strong ion-electron coupling via MD…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Dufty , Ilya Pogorelov , Bernard Talin , Annette Calisti

Relativistic shocks provide an efficient method for high-energy particle acceleration in many astrophysical sources. Multiple shock systems are even more effective and of importance, for example, in the internal shock model of gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Dempsey , Peter Duffy

We study the numerical behaviour of a particle method for gradient flows involving linear and nonlinear diffusion. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 J. A. Carrillo , Y. Huang , F. S. Patacchini , G. Wolansky

Ultra intense lasers are a promising source of energetic ions for various applications. An interesting approach described in Ferri et al. 2019 argues from Particle-in-Cell simulations that using two laser pulses of half energy (half…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Nashad Rahman , Joseph R. Smith , Gregory Ngirmang , Chris Orban

The article proposes generalizations of the macroscopic model of plasma of scalar charged particles to the cases of inter-particle interaction with multiple scalar fields and negative effective masses of these particles. The model is based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

Monte Carlo methods are often employed to numerically integrate kinetic equations, such as the particle-in-cell method for the plasma kinetic equation, but these methods suffer from the introduction of counting noise to the solution. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 J. Juno , M. Swisdak , J. M. TenBarge , V. Skoutnev , A. Hakim

Multiplicity correlation measurements provide insight into the dynamics of high energy collisions. Models describing these collisions need these correlation measurements to tune the strengths of the underlying QCD processes which influence…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-04-27 K. Gulbrandsen , C. Soegaard

We propose a nonlinear self-consistent model of the turbulent non-resonant particle acceleration in solar flares. We simulate temporal evolution of the spectra of charged particles accelerated by strong long-wavelength MHD turbulence taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Bykov , G. D. Fleishman

This article offers a new approach for analysing the dynamic behaviour of distributions of charged particles in an electromagnetic field. After discussing the limitations inherent in the Lorentz-Dirac equation for a single point particle a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David A. Burton , Jonathan Gratus , Robin W. Tucker

We analyze here in some detail, the derivation of the Particle and Monte Carlo methods of plasma simulation, such as Particle in Cell (PIC), Monte Carlo (MC) and Particle in Cell / Monte Carlo (PIC/MC) from formal manipulation of transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-05-21 Savino Longo

The paper discusses multistep nonlinear model-predictive control (NMPC) schemes for the tracking of a car model along a given reference track. In particular we will compare the numerical performance and robustness of classic single step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Matthias Gerdts

Laser-driven Plasma Accelerators (LPA) have successfully generated high energy, high charge electron bunches which can reach many kA peak current, over short distances. Space charge issues, even in transport lines as simple as a drift…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-06-06 Anthony Ashmore , Riccardo Bartolini , Nicolas Delerue

While the particle-in-cell (PIC) method is quite mature, verification and validation of both newly developed methods and individual codes has largely focused on an idiosyncratic choice of a few test cases. Many of these test cases involve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 S. O'Connor , Z. D. Crawford , J. Verboncoeur , J. Lugisland , B. Shanker

This communication is both a pedagogical note for understanding polyatomic modelling in kinetic theory and a ''cheat sheet'' for a series of corresponding concepts and formulas. We explain, detail and relate three possible approaches for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Marzia Bisi , Thomas Borsoni , Maria Groppi

We present a detailed comparison of several integration schemes applied to the dynamic system consisting of a charged particle on the Kerr background endowed with the axisymmetric electromagnetic test field. In particular, we compare the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-02 Ondřej Kopáček , Vladimír Karas , Jiří Kovář , Zdeněk Stuchlík

We report various many-body theoretical approaches to the nonlinear decay rate and energy loss of charged particles moving in an interacting free electron gas. These include perturbative formulations of the scattering matrix, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 T. del Rio Gaztelurrutia , J. M. Pitarke

The procedures of validating simulation of particle physics events at the LHC are summarized. Because of the strongly fluctuating particle content of LHC events and detector interactions, particle based Monte Carlo methods are an…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Peter Mättig

Combinatorial inverse problems in high energy physics span enormous algorithmic challenges. This work presents a new deep learning driven clustering algorithm that utilizes a space-time non-local trainable graph constructor, a graph neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Mikael Mieskolainen