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Kinetics of Particles in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks
Mikhail V. Medvedev, Luis O. Silva, Ricardo A. Fonseca +2
Charged plasma particles form an anisotropic counter-streaming distribution at the front of a shock. In the near- and ultra-relativistic regimes, Weibel (or two-stream) instability…
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Interpenetrating plasma shells: near-equipartition magnetic field generation and non-thermal particle acceleration
L. O. Silva, R. A. Fonseca, J. Tonge +3
We present the first three-dimensional fully kinetic electromagnetic relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of the collision of two interpenetrating plasma shells. The highly ac…