Relativistic shock acceleration and some consequences
arXiv:1401.7423 · doi:10.1142/S2010194514601665
Abstract
This paper summarizes recent progresses in our theoretical understanding of particle acceleration at relativistic shock waves and it discusses two salient consequences: (1) the maximal energy of accelerated particles; (2) the impact of the shock-generated micro-turbulence on the multi-wavelength light curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows.
10 pages,1 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of the HEPRO IV (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows) Conference (Heidelberg, Germany, July 2013), eds. F. Rieger and F. Aharonian, in Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser