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@ARTICLE{Alawashra:627870,
author = {Alawashra, Mahmoud S. A. and Yang, Yuanyuan and Hirata,
Christopher M. and Long, Heyang and Pohl, Martin},
title = {{M}e{V} cosmic-ray electrons modify the {T}e{V} pair-beam
plasma instability},
journal = {The astrophysical journal / Part 1},
volume = {989},
issn = {0004-637X},
address = {London},
publisher = {Institute of Physics Publ.},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01652},
pages = {37},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Relativistic pair beams created in the intergalactic medium
(IGM) by TeV gamma rays from blazars are expected to produce
a detectable GeV-scale electromagnetic cascade, but the
cascade component is absent in the spectra of many
hard-spectrum TeV-emitting blazars. One common explanation
is that weak intergalactic magnetic fields deflect the
electron–positron pairs away from our line of sight. An
alternative possibility is that electrostatic beam-plasma
instabilities drain the energy of these pairs before a
cascade can develop. Recent studies have shown that beam
scattering by oblique electrostatic modes leads to minimal
energy loss. But these modes might be suppressed by linear
Landau damping (LLD) due to MeV-scale cosmic-ray electrons
in the IGM. In this work, we explore the impact of LLD on
the energy-loss efficiency of plasma instabilities in pair
beams associated with 1ES 0229+200. We find that LLD
effectively suppresses oblique electrostatic modes, while
quasi-parallel ones grow to larger amplitudes. In this way,
LLD enhances the energy-loss efficiency of the instability
by more than an order of magnitude.},
cin = {$Z_THAT$},
ddc = {520},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)Z_THAT-20210408$},
pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613) /
DFG project G:(GEPRIS)390783311 - EXC 2094: ORIGINS: Vom
Ursprung des Universums bis zu den ersten Bausteinen des
Lebens (390783311)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613 / G:(GEPRIS)390783311},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/adec9e},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/627870},
}