Kinetic theory for radiation interacting with sound waves in ultrarelativistic pair plasmas
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A kinetic theory for radiation interacting with sound waves in an ultrarelativistic electron–positron plasma is developed. It is shown that the effect of a spatial spectral broadening of the electromagnetic pulse is to introduce a reduction of the growth rates for the decay and modulational instabilities. Such spectral broadening could be due to a finite pulse coherence length, or through the use of random phase filters, and would stabilize the propagation of electromagnetic pulses.
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