Shock waves propagating in collisionless heliospheric and astrophysical plasmas have
been studied extensively over the decades. One prime motivation is to understand the …

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma
and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron–ion energy …

ABSTRACT Inverse Compton cascades (ICCs) initiated by energetic gamma rays (E≳ 100
GeV) enhance the GeV emission from bright, extragalactic TeV sources. The absence of this …

The interest in relativistic beam-plasma instabilities has been greatly rejuvenated over the
past two decades by novel concepts in laboratory and space plasmas. Recent advances in …

Many competing linear instabilities are likely to occur in astrophysical settings, and it is
important to assess which one grows faster for a given situation. An analytical model …

Fast ignition (FI) inertial confinement fusion is a variant of inertial fusion in which DT fuel is
first compressed to high density and then ignited by a relativistic electron beam generated …

The interaction of TeV photons from blazars with the extragalactic background light
produces a relativistic beam of electron-positron pairs streaming through the intergalactic …

Recent work on Fermi acceleration at ultra-relativistic shock waves has demonstrated the
need for strong amplification of the background magnetic field on very short scales …

Bright sources of high-energy electromagnetic radiation are widely employed in
fundamental research, industry and medicine,. This motivated the construction of Compton …

Following a recent Letter by Bret [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205008 (2008)], we present a
detailed report of the entire unstable k spectrum of a relativistic collisionless beam-plasma …