A note on the experiment parameters for the non-resonant streaming instability: competition between left and right circularly polarized modes
Abstract
A non-resonant streaming instability driven by cosmic-ray currents, also called Bell's instability, is proposed as a candidate for providing the required magnetic turbulence of efficient diffusive shock accelerations. To demonstrate the saturation level and mechanism of the non-resonant streaming instability in a laboratory environment, we attempt to develop an experiment at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ). As an electron beam is used to replace the proton beam to carry the cosmic-ray current in our experiment, the polarization of the non-resonant streaming instability will be modified from the left-handed (LH) mode to the right-handed (RH) mode. The theoretical instability analysis shows that the growth rate of this RH non-resonant mode may be smaller than it of the LH resonant mode. However the LH resonant mode can be ignored in our experiment while the expected wavelength is longer than the used plasma cell. The results of PIC simulations will also support this contention and the occurrence of non-resonant streaming instability in our experiment.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.13756,
title = {A note on the experiment parameters for the non-resonant streaming instability: competition between left and right circularly polarized modes},
author = {Chun-Sung Jao and Sergei Vafin and Ye Chen and Matthias Gross and Mikhail Krasilnikov and Gregor Loisch and Timon Mehrling and Jacek Niemiec and Anne Oppelt and Alberto Martinez de la Ossa and Jens Osterhoff and Martin Pohl and Frank Stephan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13756},
year = {2019}
}