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TY - CONF AU - Tzenov, S.I. ED - Kuzin, Maksim V. ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Solitary and Shock Waves in Free and Magnetized Quasi-neutral Laser Induced Plasmas J2 - Proc. of RUPAC2018, Protvino, Russia, 01-05 October 2018 C1 - Protvino, Russia T2 - Russian Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 26 LA - english AB - Starting from the Vlasov-Maxwell equations describing the dynamics of various species in a free quasi-neutral plasma, an exact relativistic hydrodynamic closure for a special type of water-bag distributions satisfying the Vlasov equation has been derived. It has been shown that the set of equations for the macroscopic hydrodynamic variables coupled to the wave equations for the self-consistent electromagnetic field is equivalent to the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the case of magnetized quasi-neutral plasma, the hydrodynamic substitution has been used to derive the hydrodynamic equations for the plasma density and current velocity, coupled to the wave equations for the self-consistent electromagnetic fields. Based on the method of multiple scales, a system comprising a vector nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the transverse envelopes of the self-consistent plasma wakefield, coupled to a scalar nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the electron current velocity envelope for free plasma, has been derived. In the case of magnetized plasma, it has been shown that the whistler wave envelopes of the three basic modes satisfy a system of three coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Numerical examples for typical plasma parameters have been presented, which demonstrate the relevance of the results thus obtained to the so-called shock laser-plasma acceleration. In addition, it has been shown that in the case of magnetized plasma, the whistler waves facilitate the transverse confinement considerably. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 88 EP - 93 KW - plasma KW - electron KW - laser KW - wakefield KW - coupling DA - 2018/11 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-197-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-RUPAC2018-THCAMH02 UR - http://jacow.org/rupac2018/papers/thcamh02.pdf ER -