Energy deposition into dense collisionless plasmas by rotating beams
- 15 August 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 27 (4), 185-187
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88421
Abstract
A nonturbulent mechanism is proposed whereby a rotating electron or ion beam pulse rapidly deposits energy on the ions of a dense, magnetized, weakly collisional plasma through excitation of the compressional Alfvén mode.Keywords
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