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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.215003
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- Agence Nationale de la recherche [LABEX PALM-ANR-10-LABX-39]
- GENCI [x2013-052707]
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We report on the first self-consistent numerical study of the feasibility of laser-driven relativistic pair shocks of prime interest for high-energy astrophysics. Using a QED-particle-in-cell code, we simulate the collective interaction between two counterstreaming electron-positron jets driven from solid foils by short-pulse (similar to 60 fs), high-energy (similar to 100 kJ) lasers. We show that the dissipation caused by self-induced, ultrastrong (>10(6) T) electromagnetic fluctuations is amplified by intense synchrotron emission, which enhances the magnetic confinement and compression of the colliding jets.
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