Quasilinear Mechanism of High-Energy Ion-Tail Formation in the Ion-Acoustic Instability
- 23 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (12) , 771-774
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.771
Abstract
It is shown that quasilinear diffusion in velocity space can fully account for the formation of a high-energy ion tail in current-driven ion-acoustic instability. The mechanism is effective for a relatively small turbulence level, .
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