Electromagnetic Modifications of the Electrostatic Dispersion Relation

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J. D. Callen · American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

G. E. Guest · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Abstract

Longitudinal plasma waves associated with ion gyroharmonic instabilities couple strongly to transverse waves if ωpe/ck≳1. A suitably modified electrostatic dispersion relation is derived and applied to two electrostatic modes arising in mirror-confined plasmas.

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Published in: The Physics of Fluids

Volume 14, Issue 7, pp. 1588-1591

DOI: 10.1063/1.1693649

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