Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Landau Damping of Plasma Waves in a Magnetic Field
- 2 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (18), 1262-1266
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.1262
Abstract
Experiments on nonlinear Landau damping and growth of longitudinal plasma waves that propagate nearly perpendicular to a magnetic field have been carried out. The measured value of the nonlinear wave-particle coupling coefficient is in good agreement with theory.Keywords
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