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Gyrobunching and wave–particle resonance in the lower hybrid drift instability
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Cook, James William S., Dendy, R. O. and Chapman, Sandra C. (2011) Gyrobunching and wave–particle resonance in the lower hybrid drift instability. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol.53 (No.7). 074019. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/53/7/074019
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/53/7/074019
Abstract
We report a first principles study of the coupled evolution of energetic ions, background majority ions, electrons and electromagnetic fields in magnetized plasma during the linear phase of the lower hybrid drift instability. A particle-in-cell code, with one spatial and three velocity space co-ordinates, is used to analyse the evolving distribution of a drifting ring-beam population of energetic protons in physical space and gyrophase angle. This analysis is carried out for bulk plasma parameters that approximate to core conditions in large tokamaks, with an energetic ion distribution that is motivated by observations of ion cyclotron emission and may be relevant to alpha channelling. Resonant energy transfer occurs at the two gyrophase angles at which the instantaneous speed of an energetic proton on its cyclotron orbit precisely matches the phase velocity of the lower hybrid wave along the simulation domain. Electron space-charge oscillations determine the wavelength of the propagating lower hybrid wave, and thereby govern the spatial distribution of gyrobunching of the energetic protons that drive the instability.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Plasma (Ionized gases), Tokamaks, Drift waves, Ions | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | ||||
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0741-3335 | ||||
| Official Date: | July 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.53 | ||||
| Number: | No.7 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||
| Page Range: | 074019 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1088/0741-3335/53/7/074019 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | European Communities, Research Councils UK (RCUK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||
| Grant number: | EP/I501045 (RCUK), EP/G054950/1 (EPSRC) |
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