Dense plasma heating by crossing relativistic electron beams
Here we investigate, using relativistic fluid theory and Vlasov-Maxwell simulations, the local heating of a dense plasma by two crossing electron beams. Heating occurs as an instability of the electron beams drives Langmuir waves which couple nonlinearly into damped ion-acoustic waves. Simulations s...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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American Physical Society
2016
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