Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9861670 | Physics Letters B | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We consider the production of electron-positron pairs due to accelerated electrons in a strong wakefield that is created by intense neutrino bursts in plasmas. By using a classical fluid description, we investigate the generation of electrostatic wakefields at the plasma wave-breaking limit, and estimate the number of pairs that is produced by a trident process. We find that the pair concentration produced is huge, and this result can be very important in studies of astrophysical plasmas and in intense laser-plasma interaction experiments which are aimed to understanding several astrophysical phenomena in laboratory.
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Authors
L.A. Rios, A. Serbeto, J.T. Mendonça, P.K. Shukla, R. Bingham,