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Relaxation of a temperature anisotropy in a collisionless plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

C. Montes ,
J. Coste  and
G. Diener
C. Montes
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas†, Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay‡
J. Coste
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas†, Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay‡
G. Diener
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas†, Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay‡
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Abstract

We study the quasifinear relaxation of an aperiodic instability, namely the instability caused by the temperature anisotropy of a collisionless electron plasma in the absence of an external magnetic field. We give a detailed description of the relaxation process and we examine the validity of the quasilinear theory (existence of separate time scales, quasilinearity of the particles' orbits).

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 21 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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