Kinetic theory of radiation in non-equilibrium relativistic plasmas

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.02.001zbMATH Open1164.81015arXiv0902.0537OpenAlexW3099047725MaRDI QIDQ1024400FDOQ1024400

V. G. Morozov, Gerd Röpke

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many-particle QED is applied to kinetic theory of radiative processes in many- component plasmas with relativistic electrons and nonrelativistic heavy particles. Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's function technique, transport and mass-shell equations for fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are obtained. We show that the transverse field correlation functions can be decomposed into sharply peaked (non-Lorentzian) parts that describe resonant (propagating) photons and off-shell parts corresponding to virtual photons in plasmas. Analogous decomposi- tions are found for the longitudinal field correlation functions and the correlation functions of relativistic electrons. As a novel result a kinetic equation for the reso- nant photons with a finite spectral width is derived. The off-shell parts of the particle and field correlation functions are shown to be essential to calculate the local ra- diating power in relativistic plasmas and recover the results of vacuum QED. The influence of plasma effects and collisional broadening of the relativistic quasiparticle spectral function on radiative processes is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0537

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zbMATH Keywords

relativistic plasmasmany-particle QEDnon-equilibrium Green's functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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