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Acceleration of ions by the radiation pressure in a magnetized electron–positron–ion plasma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2006
Abstract
It is shown that the ponderomotive force of magnetic-field aligned circularly polarized electromagnetic waves can create space charge electric fields in a magnetized electron–positron–ion plasma. The space charge electric fields can, in turn, accelerate ions. Possible applications to the origin of energetic ions in laboratory plasmas and astrophysical settings are discussed.
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