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The neutrino electron accelerator

Authors :
Robert Bingham
Hans A. Bethe
John M. Dawson
Padma Kant Shukla
José Tito Mendonça
Lennart Stenflo
Source :
Physics of Plasmas. 5:1-3
Publication Year :
1998
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 1998.

Abstract

It is shown that a wake of electron plasma oscillations can be created by the nonlinear ponderomotive force of an intense neutrino flux. The electrons trapped in the plasma wakefield will be accelerated to high energies. Such processes may be important in supernovas and pulsars.

Details

ISSN :
10897674 and 1070664X
Volume :
5
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics of Plasmas
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........9f5186470752f22c0ac83646663e2706
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.872704