Simulation results: Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas

This repository contains some of the simulation data presented in the recent article titled "Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18955). The data available are from 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, which investigate the effects of radiative cooling in relativistic plasmas and its role in inducing coherent maser emission. The simulations were performed using OSIRIS, a massively parallel and fully-relativistic PIC code.

The electric field data in the third direction (E3) included here has been spatially averaged by a factor of 8 in both directions, resulting in a dataset that reflects a resolution 64 times lower than the actual simulation. Additionally, the raw data includes only one two-thousandth of the simulated electron macro-particles. Also included is the phase space data in the x2, p2, and p3 dimensions.

These datasets represent key aspects of the simulation results discussed in the paper, where the focus is on understanding the interplay between radiative losses and coherent emission mechanisms.

More details on the simulations and the analysis of these results can be found in the corresponding article.