Direct Observation of a Cross-Field Current-Carrying Plasma Rotating Around an Unstable Magnetized Plasma Column

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2008-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2077v1

Physics of Plasmas, February 2009

Physics

Plasma Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3076931

The low-frequency instability of a magnetized plasma column and the anomalous radial plasma convection are shown to be linked with the existence of a radial cross-field current along a plasma channel rotating around the central magnetized plasma. The direct observation of the rotating plasma is obtained using an ultra-fast intensified camera. The ionizing electrons injected along the axis of the plasma column contribute to the accumulation of negative charges when the axial collector is at floating potential. The required neutrality leads to the continuous radial expulsion of energetic electrons and to the formation of a rotating plasma channel (m=1 unstable wave). This situation has previously been interpreted erroneously as a diamagnetic drift wave.

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