Radiation-dominated particle and plasma dynamics
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

We consider charged particle motion in a strong electromagnetic field of an arbitrary configuration and find a universal behaviour: for sufficient field strengths, the radiation losses lead to a general tendency of the charge to move along the direction that locally yields zero acceleration orthogonal to the direction of motion. This corresponds to the suppression of radiation losses according to both classical and quantum considerations. We show that such a radiation-free direction (RFD) exists at each point of an arbitrary electromagnetic field, while the time-scale of approaching this direction decreases with the increase in field strength. In the case of a sufficiently strong electromagnetic field, at each point of space, the charges mainly move and form currents along the local RFD, while the deviation of their motion from RFD can be calculated to determine their incoherent emission. This forms a general description of particle, and therefore plasma, dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields, the latter being generated by state-of-the-art lasers or in astrophysical environments.

Författare

A. Gonoskov

Russian Academy of Sciences

Lobachevsky University

Mattias Marklund

Chalmers, Fysik, Teoretisk fysik

Physics of Plasmas

1070-664X (ISSN) 1089-7674 (eISSN)

Vol. 25 9 093109

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik

DOI

10.1063/1.5047799

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