Simulation study of the filamentation of counter-streaming beams of the electrons and positrons in plasmas

Details Simulation study of the filamentation of counter-streaming beams of the electrons and positrons in plasmas Simulation study of the filamentation of counter-streaming beams of the electrons and positrons in plasmas

2009-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0276v1

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 (2009) 065015

Physics

Plasma Physics

13 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0741-3335/51/6/065015

The filamentation instability driven by two spatially uniform and counter-streaming beams of charged particles in plasmas is modelled by a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Each beam consists of the electrons and positrons. The four species are equally dense and they have the same temperature. The one-dimensional simulation direction is orthogonal to the beam velocity vector. The magnetic field grows spontaneously and rearranges the particles in space, such that the distributions of the electrons of one beam and the positrons of the second beam match. The simulation demonstrates that as a result no electrostatic field is generated by the magnetic field through its magnetic pressure gradient prior to its saturation. This electrostatic field would be repulsive at the centres of the filaments and limit the maximum charge and current density. The filaments of electrons and positrons in this simulation reach higher charge and current densities than in one with no positrons. The oscillations of the magnetic field strength induced by the magnetically trapped particles result in an oscillatory magnetic pressure gradient force. The latter interplays with the statistical fluctuations in the particle density and it probably enforces a charge separation, by which electrostatic waves grow after the filamentation instability has saturated.

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