Numerical scheme for treatment of Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation for two-particle interactions in relativistic plasma

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.07.010MaRDI QIDQ2311641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. A. Prakapenia, I. A. Siutsou, G. V. Vereshchagin

Publication date 4 July 2019

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02408

zbMATH Keywords

binary interactionscollision integralrelativistic plasmaUehling-Uhlenbeck equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

Abstract: We present a new efficient method to compute Uehling-Uhlenbeck collision integral for all two-particle interactions in relativistic plasma with drastic improvement in computation time with respect to existing methods. Plasma is assumed isotropic in momentum space. The set of reactions consists of: Moeller and Bhabha scattering, Compton scattering, two-photon pair annihilation, and two-photon pair production, which are described by QED matrix elements. In our method exact energy and particle number conservation laws are satisfied. Reaction rates are compared, where possible, with the corresponding analytical expressions and convergence of numerical rates is demonstrated.

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