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Intense radiation field can modify plasma properties, the corresponding refractive index, and lead to such nonlinear propagation effects as self-focusing. We estimate the corresponding effects in pair plasma, both in unmagnetized and…

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Maxwell's equations and the equations governing charged particle dynamics are presented for a rotating coordinate system with the global time coordinate of an observer on the rotational axis. Special care is taken in defining the relevant…

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The twisted magnetospheres of magnetars must sustain a persistent flow of electron-positron plasma. The flow dynamics is controlled by the radiation field around the hot neutron star. The problem of plasma motion in the self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Nonlinear Thomson scattering of an electron motion in a combining field constituted by an elliptically polarized laser and a background magnetic field is investigated. The dependence of the electron trajectories, the fundamental frequency,…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-28 Hong Xiao , Cui-Wen Zhang , Hai-Bo Sang , Bai-Song Xie

The width of the neutrino decay into the electron and $W$ boson in a strong external magnetic field is obtained from the imaginary part of the neutrino self-energy. This result corrects the formulae existing in the literature. The mean free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-05 A. V. Kuznetsov , N. V. Mikheev , A. V. Serghienko

Turbulence in highly magnetized plasma can be relativistic and induce an electric field comparable to the background magnetic field. Such a strong electric field can affect the emission process of non-thermal electrons. As the first step…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

The abnormally intense radiation due to the uniform rotation of electron around the equatorial plane of a dielectric sphere is obtained. It takes place when the sphere surface is at a specific distance from the electron orbit and when the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sh. Grigoryan , H. F. Khachatryan , S. R. Arzumanyan

We compare the quantum and the classical description of the two-dimensional motion of electrons subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and a one-dimensional lateral superlattice defined by spatially periodic magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. D. M. Zwerschke , A. Manolescu , R. R. Gerhardts

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta

The dynamics of an electron in a strong laser field can be significantly altered by radiation reaction. This usually results in a strongly damped motion, with the electron losing a large fraction of its initial energy. Here we show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Matteo Tamburini , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

We revisit in the framework of the classical theory the problem of the accelerated motion of an electron, taking into account the effect of the radiation emission. We present results for the momentum and energy of the electromagnetic field…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Mihai Dondera

The study of the Brownian motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields fields has many important applications in plasma and heavy ions physics, as well as in astrophysics. In the present paper we consider the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-25 Tiberiu Harko , Gabriela Mocanu

Longitudinal and transverse behavior of magnetic field of relativistic nonlinear three-dimensional plasma wave is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic field of the wave is different from zero and performs higher frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. G. Khachatryan

Previous studies from the astrophysics and laser physics communities have identified an interesting phenomenon wherein ultrarelativistic charged particles experiencing strong radiation reaction tend to move along special directions fixed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Yangyang Cai , Samuel E. Gralla , Vasileios Paschalidis

The manuscript deals with electron acceleration by a laser pulse in a plasma with a static uniform magnetic field $B_*$. The laser pulse propagates perpendicular to the magnetic field lines with the polarization chosen such that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Arefiev , Z. Gong , A. P. L. Robinson

Neutron stars have inferred surface magnetic fields of up to 10^{14} Gauss, in the case of radio pulsars, and up to possibly 10^{15} Gauss, in the case of Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars. In fields this high, QED…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alice K. Harding

In this paper, an approximate method of calculating the Fermi energy of electrons ($E_{F}(e)$) in a high-intensity magnetic field, based on the analysis of the distribution of a neutron star magnetic field, has been proposed. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-03 Z. F. Gao , N. Wang , D. L. Song , J. P. Yuan , C. K. Chou

We study electron motion in electromagnetic (EM) fields in the radiation-dominated regime. It is shown that the electron trajectories become close to some asymptotic trajectories in the strong field limit. The description of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 A. S. Samsonov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

A high altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) with a peak field intensity of 5 x 10^4 V/m carries momentum that results in a retarding force on the average Compton electron (radiating coherently to produce the waveform) with magnitude…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles N. Vittitoe , Mario Rabinowitz

In energetic nonthermal sources such as gamma-ray bursts, AGN or galactic jet sources, etc., one expects both relativistic and transrelativistic shocks acompanied by violent motions of moderately relativistic plasma. We present general…

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