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相对论无碰撞等离子体激波中的费米加速与各向异性能量增益相关

Fermi acceleration in relativistic collisionless plasma shocks correlates with anisotropic energy gains

Roopendra Singh Rajawat, Vladimir Khudik, Gennady Shvets

AI总结:

本研究通过PIC模拟研究相对论正负电子等离子体对撞产生的无碰撞激波,发现WI介导的激波使粒子按洛伦兹因子分叉,快慢粒子的能量增益受电场不同分量的影响存在各向异性差异。

摘要:

本研究采用粒子模拟(PIC,particle-in-cell)方法,研究了两个对撞的相对论正负电子等离子体壳层产生的无碰撞激波。激波由Weibel不稳定性(WI,Weibel instability)介导,研究发现最快加速粒子的动能会被WI诱导的电场各向异性地改变。具体而言,所有与激波相互作用的粒子会根据其最终相对论洛伦兹因子$γ$分为两类:慢粒子($γ< γ_{bf}$)和快粒子($γ> γ_{bf}$),其中分叉洛伦兹因子$γ_{bf}$约为初始(上游)洛伦兹因子$γ_0$的两倍。研究发现,慢粒子的能量受激波电场的纵向分量和横向分量的影响相当,而快粒子主要由横向电场分量加速。

英文摘要:

Collisionless shocks generated by two colliding relativistic electron-positron plasma shells are studied using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Shocks are mediated by the Weibel instability (WI), and the kinetic energy of the fastest accelerated particles is found to be anisotropically modified by WI-induced electric fields. Specifically, we show that all particles interacting with the shock bifurcate into two groups based on their final relativistic Lorentz factor $γ$: slow ($γ< γ_{bf}$) and fast ($γ> γ_{bf}$), where $γ_{bf}$ is the bifurcation Lorentz factor that was found to be approximately twice the initial (upstream) Lorentz factor $γ_0$. We have found that the energies of the slow particles are equally affected by the longitudinal and transverse components of the shock electric field, whereas the fast particles are primarily accelerated by the transverse field component.

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