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We investigate induced Compton scattering of a circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating in a magnetized electron-positron pair plasma using one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations. In this system, two distinct modes of…

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We present a unified theoretical framework for induced (stimulated) scattering-parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves, including induced Compton, stimulated Brillouin, and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in strongly magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Kunihito Ioka

We investigate induced Compton/Brillouin scattering of electromagnetic waves in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma by verifying kinetic theory with Particle-in-Cell simulations. Applying this to fast radio bursts (FRBs) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Kunihito Ioka

We study induced (stimulated) scattering of linearly polarized, strong electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, which is crucial for understanding the propagation of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

We study the stimulated scattering instabilities of an intense linearly polarized electromagnetic wave (EMW) in a relativistic plasma with degenerate electrons. Starting from a relativistic hydrodynamic model and the Maxwell's equations, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 A. P. Misra , D. Chatterjee

We consider collective Thomson scattering of an incident X-mode wave (with the electric vector perpendicular to the background magnetic field) in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma. The collective effects do not exactly cancel out…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-28 Rei Nishiura , Kunihito Ioka

It is shown that induced Raman scattering of electromagnetic waves in the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere may be important for wave propagation and as an effective saturation mechanism for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov

The dispersion properties of elliptically polarized electromagnetic (EM) waves in a magnetized electron-positron-pair (EP-pair) plasma are studied with the effects of particle dispersion associated with the Bohm potential, the Fermi…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 M. Shahmansouri , A. P. Misra

When magnetic monopoles are introduced in plasma equations, the propagation of electromagnetic waves is modified. In this work is shown that this modification leads to the emergence of a ponderomotive force which induces a magnetization of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Felipe A. Asenjo , Pablo S. Moya

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin , M. Servin

The process of Compton scattering $\gamma e^{\pm} \to \gamma e^{\pm}$ in a strongly magnetized medium of arbitrary temperature and zeroth chemical potential was considered. The analytical expressions for the partial cross section in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Chistyakov , D. A. Rumyantsev

We explore the physics of electron acceleration in a plasma medium in an effective field theory framework. Employing a multiple Compton scattering mechanism, it is found that the acceleration can be sustained in such a medium so as to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

The nonlinear propagation of electromagnetic (EM) electron-cyclotron waves (whistlers) along an external magnetic field, and their modulation by electrostatic small but finite amplitude ion-acoustic density perturbations are investigated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 A. P. Misra , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

We consider the role of a propagation effect such as the stimulated Raman scattering on the polarization of radio pulses. When an intense electromagnetic wave with frequency close to the plasma frequency interacts with the plasma in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. Gangadhara , H. Lesch , V. Krishan

Compton scattering of gamma rays propagating in a pair plasma can drive the formation of a relativistic electron positron beam. This process is scrutinised theoretically and numerically via particle-in-cell simulations. In addition, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Bertrand Martinez , Thomas Grismayer , Luís O. Silva

Pulsar winds have longstanding problems in energy conversion and pair cascade processes which determine the magnetization $\sigma$, the pair multiplicity $\kappa$ and the bulk Lorentz factor $\gamma$ of the wind. We study induced Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-22 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

We consider the resonant scattering of coherent electromagnetic waves by a Raman-like process in the gamma ray range off electrostatic modes in a quantum plasma using a collective Klein-Gordon-Maxwell model. The growth rates for the most…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Bengt Eliasson , Chuan S. Liu

I calculate the rate of electromagnetic scattering in degenerate and partially degenerate plasmas composed of electrons, muons, protons, and neutrons. Correlations with strong interactions, induced by the polarizability of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-01 Stephan Stetina

We study with a 3D PIC simulation discontinuities between an electron-positron pair plasma and magnetized electrons and protons. A pair plasma is injected at one simulation boundary with a speed 0.6$c$ along its normal. It expands into an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 M E Dieckmann , D Folini , M Falk , A Bock , P Steneteg , R Walder
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