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Momentum, energy and mass dissipation in an electromagnetic wave packet propagating in a collisional plasma

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Plasma is accelerated in a transverse wave packet due to the dissipation of the electromagnetic momentum (radiation pressure effects) and to the dissipation of the mechanical momentum of the wave packet. The quasi-particle description of the wave packet is again possible. However, the quantities appearing in the corresponding energy-mass relation are now time-dependent.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Czechosl. Acad. Sci., Prague, Nademlýnská 600, 180 69, Praha 9, Czechoslovakia

    V. A. Petržílka

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Petržílka, V.A. Momentum, energy and mass dissipation in an electromagnetic wave packet propagating in a collisional plasma. Czech J Phys 26, 151–156 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01595349

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