Particle Interactions in High-Temperature Plasmas

• Main Author: Pike, Oliver James (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Particle acceleration.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Plasma Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.

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 as...

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.