2.5 Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Plasma Collisions
arXiv:0803.1201
Abstract
We use electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell codes to investigate the two-stream instability and Weibel instability when two beams of plasma collide head-on relativistically. We compare the dissipation of kinetic energies in the two cases. We also study the evolution of the resultant electron energy distribution function produced by such dissipation.
20 pages, 22 figures