Photoformation of electron-positron pairs in an external magnetic field

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-28
Author(s):  
B. A. Lysov ◽  
O. F. Dorofeev ◽  
O. S. Pavlova
2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sarker ◽  
M. R. Hossen ◽  
M. G. Shah ◽  
B. Hosen ◽  
A. A. Mamun

AbstractA theoretical investigation is carried out to understand the basic features of nonlinear propagation of heavy ion-acoustic (HIA) waves subjected to an external magnetic field in an electron-positron-ion plasma that consists of cold magnetized positively charged heavy ion fluids and superthermal distributed electrons and positrons. In the nonlinear regime, the Korteweg-de Vries (K-dV) and modified K-dV (mK-dV) equations describing the propagation of HIA waves are derived. The latter admits a solitary wave solution with both positive and negative potentials (for K-dV equation) and only positive potential (for mK-dV equation) in the weak amplitude limit. It is observed that the effects of external magnetic field (obliqueness), superthermal electrons and positrons, different plasma species concentration, heavy ion dynamics, and temperature ratio significantly modify the basic features of HIA solitary waves. The application of the results in a magnetized EPI plasma, which occurs in many astrophysical objects (e.g. pulsars, cluster explosions, and active galactic nuclei) is briefly discussed.


1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
I. M. Ternov ◽  
B. A. Lysov ◽  
O. F. Dorofeev ◽  
O. S. Pavlova

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (26) ◽  
pp. 1850154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim Dvornikov

We study the possibility of the existence of the electric current, formed by massive electrons and positrons, flowing along an external magnetic field. The charged fermions are supposed to have nonzero anomalous magnetic moments and electroweakly interact with background matter. The expression for the current is obtained on the basis of the exact solution of the Dirac equation in the corresponding external fields. We demonstrate that, in the state of equilibrium, such a current is vanishing for any characteristics of the electron–positron plasma as well as the external fields. Our results are compared with the recent findings of other authors.


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sepehri Javan ◽  
M. Hosseinpour Azad

AbstractSelf-focusing of an intense circularly-polarized laser beam in a hot electron-positron-ion magneto-plasma is studied. Using a relativistic fluid model, nonlinear equation describing laser-plasma interaction in the quasi-neutral approximation is derived. Expanding nonlinear current density in terms of normalized vector potential and saving only the parabolic terms, we investigated the self-focusing phenomenon for right- and left-hand circularly polarized laser beams. The evolution of laser beam spot size with Gaussian profile is considered. Effects of the external magnetic field, fraction of electron-positron pairs, and also the kind of polarization on the self-focusing property are studied. It is shown that a mixture of electron-positron pairs to the ion-electron plasma modifies the behavior of plasma with respect to the external magnetic field.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 321-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. MIKHEEV ◽  
O. S. OVCHINNIKOV ◽  
L. A. VASSILEVSKAYA

The process of electron–positron pair production by axion propagating in an external magnetic field is investigated in a model with only induced axion coupling to leptons. Contributions of the lowest and higher Landau levels are analyzed. The results we have obtained demonstrate a strong catalyzing influence of the field.


2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. SHUKLA ◽  
R. BINGHAM ◽  
A. D. R. PHELPS ◽  
L. STENFLO

AbstractWe present an investigation of the amplitude modulation of an external magnetic field-aligned right-hand circularly polarized electromagnetic electron-cyclotron (EMEC) wave in a strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. It is shown that the dynamics of the modulated EMEC wave packet is governed by a cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The latter reveals that a modulated wave packet can propagate in the form of either a dark or a grey envelope soliton. This result could have relevance to the transport of electromagnetic wave energy over long distances via envelope solitons in the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars.


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