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  title info:
    title: Particle Interactions in High-Temperature Plasmas
  name:
    name part: Pike, Oliver James.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 144 p. 31 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics. The first is the extension of the seminal theoretical works of Spitzer and Braginskii, which describe the basics of particle interactions in plasma, to relativistic systems. Relativistic plasmas have long been studied in high-energy astrophysics and are becoming increasingly attainable in the laboratory. The second is the design of a new class of photon–photon collider, which is the first capable of detecting the Breit–Wheeler process. Though it offers the simplest way for light to be converted into matter, the process has never been detected in the 80 years since its theoretical prediction. The experimental scheme proposed here exploits the radiation used in inertial confinement fusion experiments and could in principle be implemented in one of several current-generation facilities.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Dynamical Friction in a Relativistic Plasma -- Transport Processes in a Relativistic Plasma -- Numerical Simulations of High Temperature Plasmas -- An Experiment to Observe the Breit-Wheeler Process -- Conclusions.
  note: by Oliver James Pike.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Particle acceleration
  subject:
    topic: Plasma (Ionized gases)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Plasma Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics
  classification: QC717.6-718.8
  classification: 530.44
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319634470
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63447-0
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    record creation date: 170817
    record change date: 20170817122949.0
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