Published March 2008
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Journal article
Multiscale structures in relativistic pair plasmas
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 54890 (Pakistan)
- 2. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561 (Japan)
- 3. Institute of Physics, Tamarashvili 6, Tbilisi (Georgia)
Description
The steady-state solution of a pair plasma with relativistic thermal velocity of the constituent particles (electrons and positrons) is investigated. The relaxed state can be written as a superposition of three Beltrami fields. Generally, the associated scale parameters could be a complex conjugate pair and a real one. It is shown that at higher thermal energies, all the scale parameters become real. It is also observed that one component gets a large scale (system size) while the other two components appear with small scale of the order of the skin depth at relativistic temperature
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2896991;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Plasmas
- Journal Volume
- 15
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 032905-032905.6
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- CODEN
- PHPAEN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39116043
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRONS; POSITRONS; RELATIVISTIC PLASMA; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; THERMODYNAMICS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; PLASMA
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics