Ion acceleration to 100 keV by the ExB wave mechanism in collision-less shocks

Ion Dynamics and Acceleration in Relativistic Shocks

Ab-initio numerical study of collisionless shocks in electron-ion unmagnetized plasmas is performed with fully relativistic particle in cell simulations. The main properties of the shock are shown, focusing on the implications for particle acceleration. Results from previous works with a distinct numerical framework are recovered, including the shock structure and the overall acceleration featu...

Ion wave breaking acceleration

B. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, K-U. Bamberg, W. J. Ma, J. Liu, X. T. He, X. Q. Yan, and H. Ruhl Institute for Computational and Plasma Physics, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet, 80333 Muenchen, Germany Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Institute of Applied Physics and Computat...

Ion acceleration from laser-driven electrostatic shocks

Multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are used to study the generation of electrostatic shocks in plasma and the reflection of background ions to produce high-quality and high-energy ion beams. Electrostatic shocks are driven by the interaction of two plasmas with different density and/or relative drift velocity. The energy and number of ions reflected by the shock increase with increa...

Ion-acoustic shocks with self-regulated ion reflection and acceleration

M. A. Malkov, R. Z. Sagdeev, G. I. Dudnikova, T. V. Liseykina, P. H. Diamond, K. Papadopoulos, C.-S. Liu, and J. J. Su CASS and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-3280, USA Institute of Computational Technologies SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Rostock, Ro...

Shock front nonstationarity and ion acceleration in supercritical perpendicular shocks