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We derive a Lorentz invariant distribution of velocities for a relativistic gas. Our derivation is based on three pillars: the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the Lobachevskyian structure of the velocity space of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-04 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Ivano D. Soares

We examine numerically and analytically the problem of the relativistic velocity distribution in a 1-dim relativistic gas in thermal equilibrium. Our derivation is based on the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-25 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Felipe T. L. Germani , Ivano Damiao Soares

We have discovered analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) of photons that are multiply scattered in relativistic flows, under the assumption of isotropic and inelastic scattering. These expressions characterize…

We investigate the transformation of the distribution function in the relativistic case, a problem of interest in plasma when particles with high (relativistic) velocities come into play as for instance in radiation belt physics, in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

This article reviews the concept of Lorentz invariant relative velocity that is often misunderstood or unknown in high energy physics literature. The properties of the relative velocity allow to formulate the invariant flux and cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Mirco Cannoni

We consider the magnetic Lorentz gas proposed by Bobylev et al. [4], which describes a point particle moving in a random distribution of hard-disk obstacles in $\mathbb{R}^2$ under the influence of a constant magnetic field perpendicular to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Alessia Nota , Dominik Nowak , Chiara Saffirio

We find the probability density function $\mathcal{P}(V_{\texttt{r}})$ of the relativistic relative velocity for two colliding particles in a non-degenerate relativistic gas. The distribution reduces to Maxwell distribution for the relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 M. Cannoni

The relativistic equilibrium velocity distribution plays a key role in describing several high-energy and astrophysical effects. Recently, computer simulations favored Juttner's as the relativistic generalization of Maxwell's distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , Leonardo Dagdug , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl

In this paper, the expression of the relativistic Maxwell-J\"uttner velocity distribution was deduced in a detailed and didactic way. This distribution was compared with the well-known Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which does not take…

General Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Gilberto Jonas Damião , Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues

We obtain a limit when mass tends to zero of the relativistic diffusion of Schay and Dudley. The diffusion process has the log-normal distribution. We discuss Langevin stochastic differential equations leading to an equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-02 Z. Haba

The dynamics of a point charged particle which is driven by a uniform external electric field and moves in a medium of elastic scatterers is investigated. Using rudimentary approaches, we reproduce, in one dimension, the known results that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

In this article we study a fully relativistic model of a two dimensional hard-disk gas. This model avoids the general problems associated with relativistic particle collisions and is therefore an ideal system to study relativistic effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Afshin Montakhab , Malihe Ghodrat , Mahmood Barati

We find the laws for the spreading of the spatial widths (parallel and transverse to the direction of average motion) of the relativistic position probability density for a massive, spinless particle. We find that when the momentum width of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Scott E. Hoffmann

In probability density function (PDF) methods a transport equation is solved numerically to compute the time and space dependent probability distribution of several flow variables in a turbulent flow. The joint PDF of the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi

We prove the invariance principle for a \emph{random Lorentz-gas} particle in 3 dimensions under the Boltzmann-Grad limit and simultaneous diffusive scaling. That is, for the trajectory of a point-like particle moving among infinite-mass,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Christopher Lutsko , Bálint Tóth

A description of many-particle systems, which is more fundamental than the fluid approach, is to consider them as a kinetic gas. In this approach the dynamical variable in which the properties of the system are encoded, is the distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

The Lorentz gas is one of the simplest, most widely used models to study the transport properties of rarified gases in matter. It describes the dynamics of a cloud of non-interacting point particles in an infinite array of fixed spherical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Jens Marklof

In recent years, the implications of the generalized (GUP) and extended (EUP) uncertainty prin-ciples on Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution have been widely investigated. However, at high energy regimes, the validity of Maxwell-Boltzmann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 Hooman Moradpour , Sara Aghababaei , Amir Hadi Ziaie

The relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the system of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered without the simplifying approximation $m^2\cong M^2$, where $M$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

We discuss general positivity conditions necessary for a definition of a relativistic diffusion on the phase space. We show that Lorentz covariant random vector fields on the forward cone $p^{2}\geq 0$ lead to a definition of a generator of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-08 Z. Haba
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