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36956
Title
Wave-breaking limits for relativistic electrostatic waves in a one-dimensional warm plasma
Contributors
RMGM Trines (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
PA Norreys (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract
The propagation of electrostatic plasma waves having relativistic phase speed and amplitude has been studied. The plasma is described as a warm, relativistic, collisionless, nonequilibrium, one-dimensional electron fluid. Wave-breaking limits for the electrostatic field are calculated for nonrelativistic initial plasma temperatures and arbitrary phase velocities, and a correspondence between wave breaking and background particle trapping has been uncovered. Particular care is given to the ultrarelativistic regime (gamma(2)(phi)k(B)T(0)/(m(e)c(2))> 1), since conflicting results for this regime have been published in the literature. It is shown here that the ultrarelativistic wave-breaking limit will reach arbitrarily large values for gamma(phi)->infinity and fixed initial temperature. Previous results claiming that this limit is bounded even in the limit gamma(phi)->infinity are shown to suffer from incorrect application of the relativistic fluid equations and higher, more realistic wave-breaking limits are appropriate. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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CCLRC
,
CLF
,
CLF-HPL
Keywords
CLF 2006-2007
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English (EN)
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Phys Plasmas
13, no. 12 (2006): 123102.
doi:10.1063/1.2398927
2006
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