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Thermal behavior change in the self-focusing of an intense laser beam in magnetized electron-ion-positron plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2014

N. Sepehri Javan  and
M. Hosseinpour Azad
N. Sepehri Javan*
Affiliation:
Department of physics, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
M. Hosseinpour Azad
Affiliation:
Department of physics, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: N. Sepehri Javan, Department of physics, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, P.O. Box 179, Ardabil, Iran. E-mail: sepehri_javan@uma.ac.ir
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Abstract

Self-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.

Keywords

Magnetized plasmaNonlinear wave equationPair plasmaSelf-focusingSpot size
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 321 - 330
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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