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Three criteria for particle acceleration in collisionless shocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2018

Antoine Bret Open the ORCID record for Antoine Bret [Opens in a new window]  and
Asaf Pe'er
Antoine Bret*
Affiliation:
ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain Instituto de Investigaciones Energéticas y Aplicaciones Industriales, Campus Universitario de Ciudad Real, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Asaf Pe'er
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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Author for correspondence: Antoine Bret, ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain andInstituto de Investigaciones Energéticas y Aplicaciones Industriales, Campus Universitario de Ciudad Real, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Collisionless shocks have been the subject on many studies in recent years, due to their ability to accelerate particles. In order to do so, a shock must fulfill three criteria. First, it must be strong enough to accelerate particles efficiently. Second, both the upstream and the downstream must be collisionless. Third, the shock front must be surrounded by electromagnetic turbulence capable of scattering particles back and forth. We here consider the encounter of two identical plasma shells with initial density, temperature, and velocity n0, T0, v0, respectively. We translate the three criteria to the corresponding requirements on these parameters. A non-trivial map of the allowed region for particle acceleration emerges in the (n0, T0, v0) phase space, especially at low velocities or high densities. We first assess the case of pair plasma shells, before we turn to electrons/protons.

Keywords

collisionless shocksparticle acceleration
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 458 - 464
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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