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Clear evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of magnetic fluctuations in the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hantao Ji , Stephen Terry , Masaaki Yamada , Russell Kulsrud , Aleksey Kuritsyn , Yang Ren

A fully relativistic treatment of Bernstein waves in an electron-positron pair plasma has remained too formidable a task owing to the very complex nature of the problem. In this article, we perform contour integration of the dielectric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-19 Ramandeep Gill , Jeremy S. Heyl

Lower hybrid (LH) and magneto-sonic (MS) waves are well known modes of magnetized plasma. These modes play important roles in many phenomena. The lower hybrid wave is often employed in magnetic confinement fusion experiments for current…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ayushi Vashistha , Devshree Mandal , Amita Das

Linear properties of kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) and kinetic slow waves (KSWs) are studied in the framework of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics. We obtain the wave dispersion relations that are valid in a wide range of the wave frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 J. S. Zhao , Y. Voitenko , M. Y. Yu , J. Y. Lu , D. J Wu

The linear and nonlinear properties of large amplitude electron-acoustic waves are investigated in a magnetized plasma comprising two distinct electron populations (hot and cold) and immobile ions. The hot electrons are assumed to be in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Sultana , I. Kourakis , M. A. Hellberg

Langmuir probe techniques have been used to study time and spatially resolved electron densities and electron temperatures in pulse-modulated hydrogen discharges in two different planar microwave reactors (fmicrowave= 2.45 GHz, tpulse= 1…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Rousseau , E. Teboul , N. Lang , M. Hannemann , J. Röpcke

The velocity particle distributions measured in-situ in space plasmas deviate from Maxwellian (thermal) equilibrium, showing enhanced suprathermal tails which are well described by the standard Kappa-distribution (SKD). Despite its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner , Klaus Scherer , Patrick Astfalk

We study the wave propagation modes in the relativistic streaming pair plasma of the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization. We show that the combined plasma and vacuum polarization effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Wang , Dong Lai

Wave dispersion in a pulsar plasma (a 1D, strongly magnetized, pair plasma streaming highly relativistically with a large spread in Lorentz factors in its rest frame) is discussed, motivated by interest in beam-driven wave turbulence and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Z. Rafat , D. B. Melrose , A. Mastrano

Compressional waves propagating in the partially ionised solar lower atmospheric plasmas can easily steepen into nonlinear waves, including shocks. Here we investigate the effect of weak dispersion generated by Hall currents perpendicular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 I. Ballai , E. Forgacs-Dajka , A. Marcu

In a layered and strongly anisotropic superconductor the hybrid modes provided by the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the matter identify two well separate energy scales connected to the large in-plane plasma frequency and to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-03 F. Gabriele , C. Castellani , L. Benfatto

The existence of low frequency waveguide modes of ion acoustic waves is demonstrated in magnetized plasmas for electron temperature striated along the magnetic field lines. At higher frequencies, in a band between the ion cyclotron and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 P. Guio , H. L. Pecseli

We study the anomalous electromagnetic scattering in the homogenization regime, by a subwavelength thin layer of periodically distributed plasmonic nanoparticles on a perfect conducting plane. By using layer potential techniques, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Habib Ammari , Bowen Li , Jun Zou

The dispersion laws of Langmuir and transverse waves are calculated in the relativistic non-magnetized formalism for several isotropic particle distributions: thermal, power-law, relativistic Lorentzian $\kappa,$ and hybrid $\beta$. For…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman V. Shcherbakov

Fast magnetoacoustic wave is an important tool for inferring solar atmospheric parameters. We numerically simulate the propagation of fast wave pulses in randomly structured plasmas mimicking the highly inhomogeneous solar corona. A network…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Ding Yuan , Bo Li , Robert W. Walsh

Following the idea of three wave resonant interactions of lower hybrid waves it is shown that quantum -modified lower hybrid (QLH) wave in electron positron ion plasma with spatial dispersion can decay into another QLH wave ( where electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Zahida Ehsan , N. L. Tsintsadze , Renato Fedele

Strongly magnetizing a plasma adds a range of waves that do not exist in unmagnetized plasmas and enlarges the laser-plasma interaction (LPI) landscape. In this paper, we use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to investigate strongly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Lili Manzo , Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi

Magnetosonic waves are intensively studied due to their importance in space plasmas and also in fusion plasmas where they are used in particle acceleration and heating experiments. In the present paper we investigate the magnetosonic waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. Boldyrev

This paper explores plasma wave modes using the extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) model, incorporating Hall drift and electron inertia effects. We utilize the geometric optics ansatz to study perturbed quantities, with a focus on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Noura E. Shorba , Abeer A. Mahmoud , Hamdi M. Abdelhamid

Measuring the electron diffusion coefficient is the most straightforward task in the study of gamma-ray pulsar halos. The updated measurements of the spatial morphology and spectrum of the Geminga halo by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Kun Fang