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Excitation of lower hybrid wave by an ion beam in magnetized plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2013

Ved Prakash ,
Ruby Gupta ,
Suresh C. Sharma  and
Vijayshri
Ved Prakash
Affiliation:
School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India
Ruby Gupta*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi, Alipur, Delhi, India
Suresh C. Sharma
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Shahbad Daulatpur, Bawana Road, Delhi, India
Vijayshri
Affiliation:
School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Ruby Gupta, India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Science, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003, India. E-mail: rubyssndu@gmail.com
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Abstract

Lower hybrid wave excitation in magnetized plasma by an ion beam via Cerenkov interaction is studied. The lower hybrid modes showed maximum growth rate of the instability when phase velocity of the lower hybrid mode along the magnetic field is comparable to the electron thermal velocity. We have derived the expression for the maximum growth rate and found that the growth rate of the instability increases with beam density. Moreover, the maximum growth rate of the instability scales as the one-third power of the beam density. The real part of the frequency of the unstable wave increases as almost the square root of the beam energy.

Keywords

Beam velocityElectron thermal velocityGrowth rateIon beamLower hybrid mode
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 747 - 752
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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