Kinetics of Particles in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks.pdfVIP

Kinetics of Particles in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks Mikhail V. Medvedev Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Luis O. Silva, Ricardo A. Fonseca GoLP/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal J. W. Tonge, Warren B. Mori Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Charged plasma particles form an anisotropic counter-streaming distribution at the front of a shock. In the near- and ultra-relativistic regimes, Weibel (or two- stream) instability produces near-equipart