Characterization of the initial filamentation of a relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma

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2005-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0502097v1

Physics

Plasma Physics

4 page, 3 figures, to appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.115002

The linear instability that induces a relativistic electron beam passing through a return plasma current to filament transversely is often related to some filamentation mode with wave vector normal to the beam or confused with Weibel modes. We show that these modes may not be relevant in this matter and identify the most unstable mode on the two-stream/filamentation branch as the main trigger for filamentation. This sets both the characteristic transverse and longitudinal filamentation scales in the non-resistive initial stage.

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