Thermodynamics of photons in relativistic e+ e- gamma plasmas
Feb, 1999Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
Thermodynamic and spectral properties of a photon gas in plasmas are studied. The effect of a finite effective mass of a photon, associated with the plasma frequency cutoff, is self-consistently included. In the ultra-relativistic plasma, the photon spectrum turns out to be universal with the temperature normalized plasma frequency cutoff being a fundamental constant independent of plasma parameters. Such a universality does not hold in the non-relativistic plasma.- plasma: relativistic
- coupling: (positron electron photon)
- photon: gas
- thermodynamics
- photon: mass
- universality
- energy spectrum
- numerical calculations
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