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Extension of temperature anisotropy Weibel instability to non-Maxwellian plasmas by 2D PIC simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2017

Mohammad Ghorbanalilu  and
Elahe Abdollahazadeh
Mohammad Ghorbanalilu*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Tehran, Iran
Elahe Abdollahazadeh
Affiliation:
Physics Department of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
*
Author for correspondence: Mohammad Ghorbanalilu, Physics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

The Weibel instability driven by temperature anisotropy is investigated in a two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell simulation in non-extensive statistics in the relativistic regime. In order to begin the simulation, we introduced a new 2D anisotropic distribution function in the context of non-extensive statistics. The heavy ions considered to be immobile and form the neutralizing background. The numerical results show that non-extensive parameter q plays an important role on the magnetic field saturation time, the time of reduction temperature anisotropy, evolution time to the quasi-stationary state, and the peak energy density of magnetic field. We observe that the instability saturation time increases by increasing the non-extensive parameter q. It is shown that structures with superthermal electrons (q < 1) could generate strong magnetic fields during plasma thermalization. The simulation results agree with the previous simulations for an anisotropic Maxwellian plasma (q = 1).

Keywords

PIC simulationWeibel instabilitynon-extensive statistics
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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