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The radiative self-force and charged fluids

Burton, David and Carr, Anthony and Gratus, Jonathan and Noble, Adam (2013) The radiative self-force and charged fluids. Proceedings of SPIE, 8779. ISSN 0277-786X

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Abstract

We develop a new fluid model of a warm plasma that includes the radiative self-force on each plasma electron. Our approach is a natural generalization of established methods for generating fluid models without radiation reaction. The equilibrium of a magnetized plasma is analysed, and it is shown that the thermal motion is confined to the magnetic field lines. A dispersion relation is deduced for electric waves in a magnetized plasma, and it is shown to agree with our recently established relativistic kinetic theory derived from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation.

Item type: Article
ID code: 50470
Notes: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7385
Keywords: dispersion, radiation, plasmas, magnetism, electrons, Physics, Physics and Astronomy(all)
Subjects: Science > Physics
Department: Faculty of Science > Physics
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 21 Nov 2014 11:21
Last modified: 12 Sep 2018 22:39
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50470
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