THE EFFECT OF COULOMB SCATTERING ON TWO-STREAM INSTABILITIES IN A PLASMA

Abstract

The effect of a small amount of two-body scattering on the two-stream instability that occurs in a plasma of contrastreaming electrons and ions is investigated mathematically. This is done by assuming the electron-ion collision frequency is small and making a perturbation expansion in this quantity. The Fokker-Planck scattering formula for the coulomb interaction is used. As the ordered streaming energy of the electrons is thermalized, enhanced Landau damping competes with the growth of the instability. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0255687

Entities

People

  • D.a. Tidman

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Instability
  • Perturbations
  • Scattering

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics