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Rarefaction Shock Waves in Collisionless Plasma with Electronic Beam

Plasma Physics 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

We show that an electronic beam passing through the collisionless plasma of the "cold" ions and the "hot" Boltzmann electrons can give rise to the propagation of the supersonic ion-acoustic rarefaction shock waves. These waves are analogous to those predicted by Zeldovich [5] in gasodynamics and complementary to the ion-acoustic compression shock waves in collisionless plasma described by Sagdeev [3].

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@article{arxiv.1106.5980,
  title  = {Rarefaction Shock Waves in Collisionless Plasma with Electronic Beam},
  author = {Victor Ts. Gurovich and Leonid G. Fel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.5980},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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