Nonlinear mirror structures in a plasma with thermal pressure anisotropy

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Magnetic Mirrors, Plasma Simulation, Bifurcation, Magnetic Fields, Integral Equations, Magnetic Mirrors, Gas Dynamic Traps, Magnetized Plasmas, Oscillations, Chaos, And Bifurcations, Magnetopause, Integral Equations

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An asymptotic model based on a reductive perturbative expansion of the drift kinetic and the Maxwell equations, is used to demonstrate that, near the instability threshold, the nonlinear dynamics of mirror modes in a magnetized plasma with anisotropic ion temperatures, involves a subcritical bifurcation, leading to the formation of small-scale structures with amplitudes comparable with the ambient magnetic field. The influence of quasilinear effects on the initial stage of formation of mirror structures is discussed.

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