Published July 1983 | Version v1
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Nonlinear Landau damping of a whistler in a current-carrying plasma

Creators

  • 1. Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 11016, India

Description

A high-amplitude whistler wave propagating through a current-carrying plasma decays into a low-frequency resistive quasimode and frequency-upshifted scattered whistler. In this process of nonlinear Landau damping a pump-wave photon absorbs a quantum of energy from the drifting electrons to generate an upshifted whistler photon. Upconversion occurs only when the drift velocity of electrons exceeds the phase velocity of the quasimode (ω<kxv/sub d/)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
J. Appl. Phys.
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
7
Series
J. Appl. Phys.
Journal Page Range
3807-3809
ISSN
0021-8979

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
14789714
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; LANDAU DAMPING; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATION MODES; PLASMA; SCATTERING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WHISTLERS
Descriptors DEC
CURRENTS; DAMPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; NOISE; RADIATIONS; RADIO NOISE; RADIOWAVE RADIATION