Whistler scattering from density fluctuations in magnetized plasmas
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 27 (5) , 1169-1175
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864723
Abstract
Scattering of a coherent whistler from random density fluctuations is treated by a perturbation procedure. The attenuation length is calculated for scattering by a drift-wave type fluctuation model and is simply expressed as a function of the propagation angle in the limit where the whistler wavelength is long compared to a correlation length. For typical tokamak and space plasmas, this scattering becomes most important at larger angles.Keywords
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