On electrostatic modes in multi-ion and pair-ion collisional plasmas

Details On electrostatic modes in multi-ion and pair-ion collisional plasmas On electrostatic modes in multi-ion and pair-ion collisional plasmas

2008-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/0805.2564v1

Phys. Plasmas 15, 072104 (2008)

Physics

Plasma Physics

17 pages plus 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2949696

The physics of plasmas containing positive and negative ions is discussed with special attention to the recently produced pair-ion plasma containing ions of equal mass and opposite charge. The effects of the density gradient in the direction perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field vector, observed in the experiment, are discussed. In addition, the possible presence of electrons is discussed in the context of plasma modes propagating at an angle with respect to the magnetic field vector. The electrons may either be added to the plasma or enter the plasma attached to negative ions and then become released from the ions as a result of collisions. It is shown that the electron plasma mode in a cold plasma may become a backward mode in the presence of a density gradient, and this behavior may be controlled either by the electron number density or the mode number in the perpendicular direction. In plasmas with hot electrons an instability may develop, driven by the combination of electron collisions and the density gradient, and in the regime when the ions' response is similar to a sound mode, i.e., for un-magnetized ions, implying mode frequencies much above the ion gyro-frequency or mode wave-lengths shorter than the ion gyro-radius. In the case of a pure pair-ion plasma, for lower frequencies and for parameters close to those used in the recent experiments, the perturbed ions may feel the effects of the magnetic field. In this case the plasma mode also becomes backward, resembling features of an experimentally observed but yet unexplained backward mode.

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