Relativistic electromagnetic solitons in a high temperature plasma.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lontano, Maurizio; Bulanov, Sergei; Koga, James
- Source
- AIP Conference Proceedings. 2002, Vol. 611 Issue 1, p157. 7p. 6 Graphs.
- Subject
- *SOLITONS
*HIGH temperature plasmas
*COSMIC background radiation
- Language
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
The set of the relativistic hydrodynamic equations for a hot two-species plasma are derived and then reduced in order to study the existence of one-dimensional soliton-like distributions of the electromagnetic energy in an electron-positron plasma. The investigation shows that (i) non-drifting bright solitons can exist in a hot electron-positron plasma, within a well defined range of plasma temperature; (ii) extremely high electromagnetic energy concentrations are possible in an ultrarelativistic plasma; (iii) the consistent plasma temperature develops strong spatial nonuniformities. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]