Dynamical behaviour of transverse plasmons in pair plasmas

This paper analytically investigates the nonlinear behaviour of transverse plasraons in pair plasmas on the basis of the nonlinear governing equations obtained from Vlasov-Maxwell equations. It shows that high frequency transverse plasmons are modulationally unstable with respect to the uniform state of the pair plasma. Such an instability would cause wave field collapse into a localized region. During the collapse process, ponderomotive expulsion is greatly enhanced for the increase of wave field strength, leading to the formation of localized density cavitons which are significant for the future experimental research in the interaction between high frequency electromagnetic waves and pair plasmas.

Existence of Optical Vortex Solitons in Pair Plasmas

Optical vortices arise as phase dislocations of light fields and they are of importance in modern optical physics.In this study,we employ the calculus of variations method to develop an existence theory for the steady state vortex solutions of a nonlinear Schr?dinger type equation to model light waves that propagate in a medium with a new focusing-defocusing nonlinearity.First,we demonstrate the existence of positive radially symmetric solutions by constrained minimization,where we give some interesting explicit estimates related to vortex winding numbers and the wave propagation constant.Second,we establish the existence of saddle-point solutions through a mountain-pass argument.

Dense pair plasma generation by two laser pulses colliding in a cylinder channel

An all-optical scheme for high-density pair plasmas generation is proposed by two laser pulses colliding in a cylinder channel. Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations show that, when the first laser pulse propagates in the cylinder, electrons are extracted out of the cylinder inner wall and accelerated to high energies. These energetic electrons later run into the second counter-propagating laser pulse, radiating a large amount of high-energy gamma photons via the Compton back-scattering process. The emitted gamma photons then collide with the second laser pulse to initiate the Breit-Wheeler process for pairs production. Due to the strong self-generated fields in the cylinder, positrons are confined in the channel to form dense pair plasmas. Totally, the maximum density of pair plasmas can be 4.60 × 10^27 m%-3, for lasers with an intensity of 4 × 10^22 W.cm^-2. Both the positron yield and density are tunable by changing the cylinder radius and the laser parameters. The generated dense pair plasmas can further facilitate investigations related to astrophysics and particle physics.

Thomson scattering off a pair （electron-positron） plasma

Thomson scattering off a pair （electron-positron） plasma is theoretically investigated in the collisionless and collisional limits respectively. Our calculations show that the power spectrum of the Thomson scattering off a collisionless pair plasma is just proportional to the velocity distribution function of the particles in the plasma. Collective modes in the plasma do not have any effects on the Thomson scattering spectrum because of the correlation between the negatively- and positively-charged particles. In the collisional limit, the power spectrum of the Thomson scattering presents three spikes： two peaks correspond to two contra-propagating sound waves and one peak corresponds to an entropy wave.