Active Project

Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in near and mildly relativistic shocks

Project details

Project title: Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in near and mildly relativistic shocks
Project code: dsast008a
Project class: A

Start date: Tuesday 15 June 2010
End date: Friday 14 June 2013

People

Project PI: Dr. Gareth Murphy
Number of users: 2-5
Registered users: 1

Resulting publications

• Kinetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Asymmetric Quasi-Parallel Mildly Relativistic Plasma Collisions: Field and Electron Dynamics
• Magnetic field amplification and electron acceleration to near-energy equipartition with ions by a mildly relativistic quasi-parallel plasma protoshock
• Multidimensional Simulations of Magnetic Field Amplification and Electron Acceleration to Near-Energy Equipartition With Ions by a Mildly Relativistic Quasi-Parallel Plasma Collision
• Magnetic vortex growth in the transition layer of a mildly relativistic plasma shock

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