WEIBEL INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNG ABSORPTION OF INTENSE ELECTROMAGNETIC-RADIATION

Citation
Ay. Romanov et al., WEIBEL INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNG ABSORPTION OF INTENSE ELECTROMAGNETIC-RADIATION, Journal of experimental and theoretical physics, 84(4), 1997, pp. 687-693
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
10637761
Volume
84
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
687 - 693
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7761(1997)84:4<687:WIAWIB>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We investigate the Weibel instability in a plasma with a nonstationary three-temperature electron distribution generated by inverse bremsstr ahlung of an intense elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave. We s how that electron-ion collisions in this strong high frequency field a re simultaneously the cause of the development of the instability and the reason it is suppressed. We find plasma and radiation parameters f or which spontaneous quasistationary solenoidal electromagnetic fields can increase by many times. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.