ACCELERATION IN PERPENDICULAR RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS FOR PLASMAS CONSISTING OF LEPTONS AND HADRONS
ACCELERATION IN PERPENDICULAR RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS FOR PLASMAS CONSISTING OF LEPTONS AND HADRONS
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轻子和强子组成的等离子体垂直相对论激波的加速
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/755/1/68
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
L. Silva
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作者:
A. Stockem;F. Fiuza;R. Fonseca;L. Silva
We investigate the acceleration of light particles in perpendicular shocks for plasmas consisting of a mixture of leptonic and hadronic particles. Starting from the full set of conservation equations for the mixed plasma constituents, we generalize the magnetohydrodynamical jump conditions for a multi-component plasma, including information about the specific adiabatic constants for the different species. The impact of deviations from the standard model of an ideal gas is compared in theory and particle-in-cell simulations, showing that the standard MHD model is a good approximation. The simulations of shocks in electron–positron–ion plasmas are for the first time multi-dimensional, transverse effects are small in this configuration, and one-dimensional (1D) simulations are a good representation if the initial magnetization is chosen high. 1D runs with a mass ratio of 1836 are performed, which identify the Larmor frequency ωci as the dominant frequency that determines the shock physics in mixed component plasmas. The maximum energy in the non-thermal tail of the particle spectra evolves in time according to a power law ∝tα with α in the range 1/3 < α < 1, depending on the initial parameters. A connection is made with transport theoretical models by Drury and Gargaté & Spitkovsky, which predict an acceleration time ∝γ and the theory for small wavelength scattering by Kirk & Reville, which predicts a behavior rather as ∝γ2. Furthermore, we compare different magnetic field orientations with B0 inside and out of the plane, observing qualitatively different particle spectra than in pure electron–ion shocks.
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
HAIM L
通讯作者:
HAIM L