Closed fluid description of relativistic, magnetized plasma interacting with radiation field.
A closed set of averaged fluid equations for a relativistic plasma immersed, simultaneously, in a slowly varying magnetizing field and a sharply varying electromagnetic field (radiation field, for example) of arbitrary intensity is derived. The modifications due to the radiation field on the plasma stress tensor and the Lorentz force are explicitly displayed. The resulting equations include the effects of radiation reaction as well as radiation pressure.
Hazeltine
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Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
Mahajan
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