Radiation reaction friction: Resistive material medium

Abstract

We explore a novel method of describing the radiation friction of particles traveling through a mechanically resistive medium. We introduce a particle motion induced matter warping along the path in a manner assuring that charged particle dynamics occurs subject to radiative energy loss described by the Larmor formula. We compare our description with the Landau-Lifshitz-like model for the radiation friction and show that the established model exhibits non-physical behavior. Our approach predicts in the presence of large mechanical friction an upper limit on radiative energy loss being equal to the energy loss due to the mechanical medium resistance. We demonstrate that mechanical friction due to strong interactions, for example of quarks in quark-gluon plasma, can induce significant soft photon radiation.

arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures

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