Relativistic Plasma Polarizer: Impact of Temperature Anisotropy on Relativistic Transparency

3D particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that the enhanced transparency of a relativistically hot plasma is sensitive to how the energy is partitioned between different degrees of freedom. For an anisotropic electron distribution, propagation characteristics, like the critical density, will depen...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2015-07, Vol.115 (2), p.025002-025002, Article 025002
Main Authors: Stark, David J, Bhattacharjee, Chinmoy, Arefiev, Alexey V, Toncian, Toma, Hazeltine, R D, Mahajan, S M
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Wave plates
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Three dimensional
Wave plates
Wave propagation
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