[HTML][HTML] Electron tail suppression and effective collisionality due to synchrotron emission and absorption in mildly relativistic plasmas

IE Ochs, ME Mlodik, NJ Fisch - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Synchrotron radiation losses are a significant cause of concern for high-temperature
aneutronic fusion reactions such as proton–Boron 11. The fact that radiation losses occur …

Synchrotron-driven instabilities in relativistic plasmas of arbitrary opacity

IE Ochs - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work has shown that synchrotron emission from relativistic plasmas leads the
electron distribution to form an anisotropic ring in momentum space, which can be unstable …

A parametric study of population inversions in relativistic plasmas through nonresonant interactions with Alfv\'en waves and their applications to Fast Radio Bursts

K Long, A Pe'er - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21022, 2024 - arxiv.org
Synchrotron maser emission is a leading candidate to explain the coherent emission from
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). This mechanism requires a population inversion in order to …

Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas

PJ Bilbao, T Silva, LO Silva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18955, 2024 - arxiv.org
Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to
classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs …

The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmas

T Silva, PJ Bilbao, LO Silva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06783, 2024 - arxiv.org
We show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped
weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic …