Bifurcation and Lorentz-factor scaling of relativistic magnetized plasma expansion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Liang, Edison ^a   Nishimura, Kazumi ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA STABILITY; POSITRONS;

DIAMAGNETIC RELATIVISTIC PULSE ACCELERATOR (DRPA); LORENTZ FACTORS; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; PLASMA EXPANSION;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 2942611399     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175005     Document Type: Article

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