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Beam-plasma dielectric tensor with Mathematica

Plasma Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We present a \emph{Mathematica} notebook allowing for the symbolic calculation of the 3×33\times3 dielectric tensor of a electron-beam plasma system in the fluid approximation. Calculation is detailed for a cold relativistic electron beam entering a cold magnetized plasma, and for arbitrarily oriented wave vectors. We show how one can elaborate on this example to account for temperatures, arbitrarily oriented magnetic field or a different kind of plasma.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0701257,
  title  = {Beam-plasma dielectric tensor with Mathematica},
  author = {A. Bret},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0701257},
  year   = {2007}
}

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To appear in "Computer Physics Communications"