High-Frequency Driven Ion-Cyclotron Instability
- 19 May 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 34 (20), 1269-1272
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.1269
Abstract
The mechanism of the high-frequency driven ion-cyclotron instability is investigated and shown, for a -machine plasma column with symmetric external excitation, to correspond to a three-wave resonant process in which an electron-plasma wave decays into an electrostatic ion-cyclotron wave and an oppositely propagating electron-plasma wave, all waves being in their lowest-order mode.
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