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Zhang WS, Cai HB, Du B, Kang DG, Zou SY, Zhu SP. Full particle-in-cell simulation of the formation and structure of a collisional plasma shock wave. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:023213. [PMID: 33735973 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.023213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The formation and structure of a collisional shock wave in a fully ionized plasma is studied via full particle-in-cell simulations, which allows the complex momentum and energy transfer processes between different charged particles to be treated self-consistently. The kinetic energy of the plasma flow drifting towards a reflecting piston is found to be rapidly converted into thermal motion under the cooperative effects of ion-ion collisions, ion-electron collisions, and electric field charged-particle interactions. The subsequent shock evolution is influenced by the "precursor" ion beam before a quasisteady state is reached. The shock wave structure is then analyzed from a two-fluid transport viewpoint, which is found to be affected by "flux-limiting" electron transport, the nonthermal ions, and the charge separation electric field.
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- Wen-Shuai Zhang
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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Singh PK, Pathak VB, Shin JH, Choi IW, Nakajima K, Lee SK, Sung JH, Lee HW, Rhee YJ, Aniculaesei C, Kim CM, Pae KH, Cho MH, Hojbota C, Lee SG, Mollica F, Malka V, Ryu CM, Kim HT, Nam CH. Electrostatic shock acceleration of ions in near-critical-density plasma driven by a femtosecond petawatt laser. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18452. [PMID: 33116228 PMCID: PMC7595239 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75455-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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With the recent advances in ultrahigh intensity lasers, exotic astrophysical phenomena can be investigated in laboratory environments. Collisionless shock in a plasma, prevalent in astrophysical events, is produced when a strong electric or electromagnetic force induces a shock structure in a time scale shorter than the collision time of charged particles. A near-critical-density (NCD) plasma, generated with an intense femtosecond laser, can be utilized to excite a collisionless shock due to its efficient and rapid energy absorption. We present electrostatic shock acceleration (ESA) in experiments performed with a high-density helium gas jet, containing a small fraction of hydrogen, irradiated with a 30 fs, petawatt laser. The onset of ESA exhibited a strong dependence on plasma density, consistent with the result of particle-in-cell simulations on relativistic plasma dynamics. The mass-dependent ESA in the NCD plasma, confirmed by the preferential reflection of only protons with two times the shock velocity, opens a new possibility of selective acceleration of ions by electrostatic shock.
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- Prashant Kumar Singh
- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.,Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Amplitude Laser Group, 91090, Lisses, France.,Laboratoire D'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, 828 Boulevard des Marechaux, 91762, Palaiseau CEDEX, France
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- Laboratoire D'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, 828 Boulevard des Marechaux, 91762, Palaiseau CEDEX, France.,Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea. .,Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.
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- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.
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Grassi A, Grech M, Amiranoff F, Macchi A, Riconda C. Radiation-pressure-driven ion Weibel instability and collisionless shocks. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:033204. [PMID: 29347053 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.033204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The Weibel instability from counterstreaming plasma flows is a basic process highly relevant for collisionless shock formation in astrophysics. In this paper we investigate, via two- and three-dimensional simulations, suitable configurations for laboratory investigations of the ion Weibel instability (IWI) driven by a fast quasineutral plasma flow launched into the target via the radiation pressure of an ultra-high-intensity laser pulse ("hole-boring" process). The use of S-polarized light at oblique incidence is found to be an optimal configuration for driving IWI, as it prevents the development of surface rippling observed at normal incidence that would lead to strong electron heating and would favor competing instabilities. Conditions for the evolution of IWI into a collisionless shock are also investigated.
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- A Grassi
- LULI, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
- Dipartimento di Fisica Enrico Fermi, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR/INO), u.o.s. Adriano Gozzini, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- LULI, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Palaiseau, France
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- LULI, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica Enrico Fermi, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR/INO), u.o.s. Adriano Gozzini, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- LULI, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
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Formation and evolution of a pair of collisionless shocks in counter-streaming flows. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42915. [PMID: 28266497 PMCID: PMC5339721 DOI: 10.1038/srep42915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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A pair of collisionless shocks that propagate in the opposite directions are firstly observed in the interactions of laser-produced counter-streaming flows. The flows are generated by irradiating a pair of opposing copper foils with eight laser beams at the Shenguang-II (SG-II) laser facility. The experimental results indicate that the excited shocks are collisionless and electrostatic, in good agreement with the theoretical model of electrostatic shock. The particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations verify that a strong electrostatic field growing from the interaction region contributes to the shocks formation. The evolution is driven by the thermal pressure gradient between the upstream and the downstream. Theoretical analysis indicates that the strength of the shocks is enhanced with the decreasing density ratio during both flows interpenetration. The positive feedback can offset the shock decay process. This is probable the main reason why the electrostatic shocks can keep stable for a longer time in our experiment.
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Ruyer C, Gremillet L, Bonnaud G, Riconda C. Analytical Predictions of Field and Plasma Dynamics during Nonlinear Weibel-Mediated Flow Collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 117:065001. [PMID: 27541468 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.065001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The formation of collisionless shocks mediated by the ion Weibel instability is addressed theoretically and numerically in the nonrelativistic limit. First, the model developed in C. Ruyer et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 032102 (2015) for the weakly nonlinear ion Weibel instability in a symmetric two-stream system is shown to be consistent with recent experimental and simulation results. Large-scale kinetic simulations are then performed to clarify the spatiotemporal evolution of the magnetic-field and plasma properties in the subsequent strongly nonlinear phase leading to shock formation. A simple analytical model is proposed which captures the simulation results up to a point close to ion isotropization. Electron screening effects are found important in the instability dynamics, so that numerical simulations using a nonphysical electron mass should be considered with caution.
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- C Ruyer
- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
- LULI, Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS-CEA-UPMC, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- INSTN, CEA-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- LULI, Sorbonne Universités-UPMC-Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS-CEA, 75005 Paris, France
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Marcowith A, Bret A, Bykov A, Dieckman ME, Drury LO, Lembège B, Lemoine M, Morlino G, Murphy G, Pelletier G, Plotnikov I, Reville B, Riquelme M, Sironi L, Novo AS. The microphysics of collisionless shock waves. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2016; 79:046901. [PMID: 27007555 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/4/046901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Collisionless shocks, that is shocks mediated by electromagnetic processes, are customary in space physics and in astrophysics. They are to be found in a great variety of objects and environments: magnetospheric and heliospheric shocks, supernova remnants, pulsar winds and their nebulæ, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts and clusters of galaxies shock waves. Collisionless shock microphysics enters at different stages of shock formation, shock dynamics and particle energization and/or acceleration. It turns out that the shock phenomenon is a multi-scale non-linear problem in time and space. It is complexified by the impact due to high-energy cosmic rays in astrophysical environments. This review adresses the physics of shock formation, shock dynamics and particle acceleration based on a close examination of available multi-wavelength or in situ observations, analytical and numerical developments. A particular emphasis is made on the different instabilities triggered during the shock formation and in association with particle acceleration processes with regards to the properties of the background upstream medium. It appears that among the most important parameters the background magnetic field through the magnetization and its obliquity is the dominant one. The shock velocity that can reach relativistic speeds has also a strong impact over the development of the micro-instabilities and the fate of particle acceleration. Recent developments of laboratory shock experiments has started to bring some new insights in the physics of space plasma and astrophysical shock waves. A special section is dedicated to new laser plasma experiments probing shock physics.
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- A Marcowith
- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier CNRS/Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Lobet M, Ruyer C, Debayle A, d'Humières E, Grech M, Lemoine M, Gremillet L. Ultrafast Synchrotron-Enhanced Thermalization of Laser-Driven Colliding Pair Plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:215003. [PMID: 26636856 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.215003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report on the first self-consistent numerical study of the feasibility of laser-driven relativistic pair shocks of prime interest for high-energy astrophysics. Using a QED-particle-in-cell code, we simulate the collective interaction between two counterstreaming electron-positron jets driven from solid foils by short-pulse (~60 fs), high-energy (~100 kJ) lasers. We show that the dissipation caused by self-induced, ultrastrong (>10^{6} T) electromagnetic fluctuations is amplified by intense synchrotron emission, which enhances the magnetic confinement and compression of the colliding jets.
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- M Lobet
- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
- CELIA, UMR 5107, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, 33405, Talence
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
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- CELIA, UMR 5107, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, 33405, Talence
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- LULI, UMR 7605, CNRS-CEA-École Polytechnique-Université Paris VI, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, UPMC, 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
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Alves EP, Grismayer T, Fonseca RA, Silva LO. Transverse electron-scale instability in relativistic shear flows. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:021101. [PMID: 26382337 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.021101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a sheared flow in an initially unmagnetized collisionless plasma, not captured by (magneto)hydrodynamics. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate than the closely related electron-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in relativistic shears. Multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations verify the analytic results and further reveal the emergence of mushroomlike electron density structures in the nonlinear phase of the instability, similar to those observed in the Rayleigh Taylor instability despite the great disparity in scales and different underlying physics. This transverse electron-scale instability may play an important role in relativistic and supersonic sheared flow scenarios, which are stable at the (magneto)hydrodynamic level. Macroscopic (≫c/ωpe) fields are shown to be generated by this microscopic shear instability, which are relevant for particle acceleration, radiation emission, and to seed magnetohydrodynamic processes at long time scales.
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- E P Alves
- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
- DCTI/ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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Stockem A, Grismayer T, Fonseca RA, Silva LO. Electromagnetic field generation in the downstream of electrostatic shocks due to electron trapping. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:105002. [PMID: 25238365 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.105002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found, which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales ∼10(4)ωpe-1. Electron trapping during the shock formation process creates a strong temperature anisotropy in the distribution function, giving rise to the pure Weibel instability. The generated magnetic field is well confined to the downstream region of the electrostatic shock. The shock formation process is not modified, and the features of the shock front responsible for ion acceleration, which are currently probed in laser-plasma laboratory experiments, are maintained. However, such a strong magnetic field determines the particle trajectories downstream and has the potential to modify the signatures of the collisionless shock.
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- A Stockem
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Lehrstuhl IV: Weltraum- und Astrophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany and GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal and ISCTE Instituto Universitário Lisboa, Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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