Collision of Two Plasma Streams

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It has been predicted that under certain conditions the counter-streaming of colliding plasma streams should be unstable and should be stopped in a very short distance with the translational energy being converted to the energy of ion or electron oscillations. The collision of two plasma streams satisfying one set of conditions, for which instability had been predicted, has been studied experimentally, and no evidence of instability has been observed. Study of the plasma dispersion equation indicates that much more rigorous conditions must be met before such instability should occur.

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