Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
2008-08-29
Physics
Plasma Physics
5 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.255001
A new quasi-neutral model describing the Weibel instability of a high-current relativistic beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. It treats beam electrons as kinetic particles, and ambient plasma as a non-relativistic fluid. For a finite-temperature beam, a new class of negative energy magneto-sound waves is identified, which can possess negative energy. Their growth due to collisional dissipation in the cold return current destabilizes the beam-plasma system even for high beam temperatures. We perform detailed two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the thermal beam and collisional plasma. It is shown that in three dimensions, the Weibel instability persists even for physically collisionless background plasma. The anomalous plasma resistivity is then caused by the two-stream instability.
Karmakar Anupam
Kumar Naveen
Polomarov Oleg
Pukhov Alexander
Shvets Gennady
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