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Author(s): | Stockem, A. Fiuza, F. Fonseca, R. A. Silva, L. O. |
Date: | 2012 |
Title: | Acceleration in perpendicular relativistic shocks for plasmas consisting of leptons and hadrons |
Volume: | 755 |
Number: | 1 |
Pages: | 68 |
ISSN: | 0004-637X |
Keywords: | Acceleration of particles Equation of state ISM: kinematics and dynamics Shock waves |
Abstract: | We investigate the acceleration of light particles in perpendicular shocks for plasmas consisting of a mixture of leptonic and hadronic particles. Starting from the full set of conservation equations for the mixed plasma constituents, we generalize the magnetohydrodynamical jump conditions for a multi-component plasma, including information about the specific adiabatic constants for the different species. The impact of deviations from the standard model of an ideal gas is compared in theory and particle-in-cell simulations, showing that the standard MHD model is a good approximation. The simulations of shocks in electron-positron-ion plasmas are for the first time multi-dimensional, transverse effects are small in this configuration, and one-dimensional (1D) simulations are a good representation if the initial magnetization is chosen high. 1D runs with a mass ratio of 1836 are performed, which identify the Larmor frequency omega(ci) as the dominant frequency that determines the shock physics in mixed component plasmas. The maximum energy in the non-thermal tail of the particle spectra evolves in time according to a power law proportional to t(alpha) with alpha in the range 1/3 < alpha < 1, depending on the initial parameters. A connection is made with transport theoretical models by Drury and Gargate & Spitkovsky, which predict an acceleration time proportional to gamma and the theory for small wavelength scattering by Kirk & Reville, which predicts a behavior rather as proportional to gamma(2). Furthermore, we compare different magnetic field orientations with B-0 inside and out of the plane, observing qualitatively different particle spectra than in pure electron-ion shocks. |
Peerreviewed: | Sim |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CTI-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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