Damping of electromagnetic waves due to electron-positron pair production

Details Damping of electromagnetic waves due to electron-positron pair production Damping of electromagnetic waves due to electron-positron pair production

2004-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0409301v1

Phys.Rev. E71 (2005) 016404

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages, 5 figures; revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016404

The problem of the backreaction during the process of electron-positron pair production by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating in a plasma is investigated. A model based on the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation with a source term corresponding to the Schwinger formula for the pair creation rate is used. The damping of the wave, the nonlinear up-shift of its frequency due to the plasma density increase and the effect of the damping on the wave polarization and on the background plasma acceleration are investigated as a function of the wave amplitude.

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