What is it about?
Because plasma can sustain strong electric and magnetic field, it is often expected to act as a novel accelerator. But such a plasma-based accelerator has a significant difference from conventional electrostatic accelerator, that is, the accelerating fields in such a plasma-based accelerator is usually electromagnetic, or difficult to be desirablly electrostatic.
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Why is it important?
It points out that electrostatic plasma-based accelerator is hard to be achieved
Perspectives
To correctly understand related physics, especially plasma-based acceleration, more realistic theory based on electromagnetic, rather than electrostatic, plasma acceelrator should be studied.
Dr Hai Lin
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanism
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This page is a summary of: Macroscopic and Microscopic Structure of Electromagnetic Wakefield, The Open Plasma Physics Journal, February 2014, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1876534301407010001.
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