V. I. Berezhiani

Jul 1, 2024 | pubs.aip.org | Brian Haines |P. Rodriguez-Fernandez |S. Krüger |V. I. Berezhiani

A relativistically hot plasma, exposed to intense radiation, experiences a higher radiation pressure force compared to a cold plasma. The phenomenon known as the “Compton Rocket” was originally discovered by O'Dell.1 In O'Dell's work, the force acting on the plasma was derived using a phenomenological, test-particle approach. Energy-momentum conservation is employed to address particle–photon interaction, and the resulting force is integrated over the distribution function.