Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Imperial College London
- An important contribution to plasma physics, both theoretically and in relation to collider design
- Suggests a feasible scheme for observing the elusive Breit-Wheeler process
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics. The first is the extension of the seminal theoretical works of Spitzer and Braginskii, which describe the basics of particle interactions in plasma, to relativistic systems. Relativistic plasmas have long been studied in high-energy astrophysics and are becoming increasingly attainable in the laboratory. The second is the design of a new class of photon–photon collider, which is the first capable of detecting the Breit–Wheeler process. Though it offers the simplest way for light to be converted into matter, the process has never been detected in the 80 years since its theoretical prediction. The experimental scheme proposed here exploits the radiation used in inertial confinement fusion experiments and could in principle be implemented in one of several current-generation facilities.
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Book Title: Particle Interactions in High-Temperature Plasmas
Authors: Oliver James Pike
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63447-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63446-3Published: 05 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87558-3Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63447-0Published: 17 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 144
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plasma Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics