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Radiative cooling in relativistic collisionless shocks. Can simulations and experiments probe relevant GRB physics?
Mikhail V. Medvedev, Anatoly Spitkovsky
We address the question of whether numerical particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and laboratory laser-plasma experiments can (or will be able to, in the near future) model realistic…
Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks: Fermi process at last?
Anatoly Spitkovsky
We present evidence that relativistic shocks propagating in unmagnetized plasmas can self-consistently accelerate particles. We use long-term two-dimensional particle-in-cell simul…
Magnetic field evolution in relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks
Uri Keshet, Boaz Katz, Anatoly Spitkovsky +1
We study relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks using unprecedentedly large particle-in-cell simulations of two-dimensional pair plasma. High energy particles accelerated b…
Long Term Evolution of Magnetic Turbulence in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks
Philip Chang, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Jonathan Arons
We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by an initially unmagnetized collisionless relativistic shock. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations…