In this chapter we address the low-density and high-temperature regime of high-energy-density physics identified in Chap. 1. While phenomena produced in this regime often connect with those discussed in the previous chapters, there are real differences in the underlying physics. A high-energy-density, thermal, relativistic plasma would have a minimum temperature of 511 keV and a density exceeding 1018 cm–3. At the turn of the century, such plasmas did not exist in the laboratory. Producing them can be taken as a challenge for the early 21st century.
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Drake, R. P. (2006). Relativistic High-Energy-Density Systems. In High-Energy-Density Physics (pp. 449–484). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29315-9_11
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