Laboratory measurements of electrostatic solitary structures generated by electron beam injection

Details Laboratory measurements of electrostatic solitary structures generated by electron beam injection Laboratory measurements of electrostatic solitary structures generated by electron beam injection

2010-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/1009.4617v1

B. Lefebvre, L.-J. Chen, W. Gekelman, P. Kintner, J. Pickett, P. Pribyl, S. Vincena, F. Chiang, J. Judy, Physical Review Lette

Physics

Plasma Physics

5 pages, 4 figures http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.115001

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.115001

Electrostatic solitary structures are generated by injection of a suprathermal electron beam parallel to the magnetic field in a laboratory plasma. Electric microprobes with tips smaller than the Debye length ($\lambda_{De}$) enabled the measurement of positive potential pulses with half-widths 4 to 25$\lambda_{De}$ and velocities 1 to 3 times the background electron thermal speed. Nonlinear wave packets of similar velocities and scales are also observed, indicating that the two descend from the same mode which is consistent with the electrostatic whistler mode and result from an instability likely to be driven by field-aligned currents.

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