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Enhanced damping of ion acoustic waves in dense plasmas
A theory for the ion acoustic wave damping in dense plasmas and warm dense
matter, accounting for the Umklapp process, is presented. A higher decay rate
compared to the prediction from the Landau damping theory is predicted for
high-Z dense plasmas where the electron density ranges from to and the electron temperature is moderately higher
than the Fermi energy
Plasmon band gap generated by intense ion acoustic waves
In the presence of an intense ion acoustic wave, the energy-momentum
dispersion relation of plasmons is strongly modified to exhibit a band gap
structure. The intensity of an ion acoustic wave might be measured from the
band gap width. The plasmon band gap can be used to block the nonlinear
cascading channel of Langmuir wave decayComment: 3 pages, 3 figures, published on Po
Hard x-ray or gamma ray laser by a dense electron beam
A coherent x-ray or gamma ray can be created from a dense electron beam
propagating through an intense laser undulator. It is analyzed by using the
Landau damping theory which suits better than the conventional linear analysis
for the free electron laser, as the electron beam energy spread is high. The
analysis suggests that the currently available physical parameters would enable
the generation of the coherent gamma ray of up to 100 keV. The electron quantum
diffraction suppresses the FEL action, by which the maximum radiation energy to
be generated is limited
Entropy Maximization and Instability of Uniformly Magnetized Plasma
A regime where a uniformly magnetized plasma could be unstable to a spatial
perturbation in the magnetic field is explored. In this regime, a uniformly
magnetized state does not maximize the entropy. The physical implication is
discussed in the context of the current generation, the magnetic reconnection,
and the dynamo effect
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