Instability of a large-amplitude plasma wave due to inverted trapped particle population
- 1 October 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 8 (2) , 169-174
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800007054
Abstract
The large-amplitude plasma wave with a trapped-particle distribution monotonically increasing in energy is found to be unstable if the trapped-particle plasma frequency ωt = (4πnte2/m)½ is greater than the bounce frequency ωb = (eΕ0κ0/m)½.Keywords
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