Nonlinear interaction of electron plasma waves with electron acoustic waves in plasmas

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 072311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Chakrabarti ◽  
Sudip Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Interaction ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Plasma Waves ◽  
Electron Plasma ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic

scholarly journals Excitation of electron acoustic waves near the electron plasma frequency and at twice the plasma frequency

2000 ◽  
Vol 105 (A6) ◽  
pp. 12919-12927 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Schriver ◽  
M. Ashour-Abdalla ◽  
V. Sotnikov ◽  
P. Hellinger ◽  
V. Fiala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Electron Plasma ◽  
Electron Plasma Frequency ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic

Side-scattering of an ordinary electromagnetic wave by electron-acoustic oscillations

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Sharma ◽  
M. Y. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Parametric Instability ◽  
Electron Plasma ◽  
Hot Electron ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic

The scattering of an ordinary electromagnetic wave into a circularly polarized wave by electron-acoustic oscillations is considered.In this paper, we consider a parametric instability involving electron-acoustic waves which does not have a counterpart in a hot electron plasma, namely the scattering of an ordinary electromagnetic wave into a circularly polarized wave by electron-acoustic waves.

Two-soliton and three-soliton interactions of electron acoustic waves in quantum plasma

Pramana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAUSHIK ROY ◽  
SWAPAN KUMAR GHOSH ◽  
PRASANTA CHATTERJEE
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Quantum Plasma ◽  
Soliton Interactions ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic

Oblique propagating extraordinary spin-electron acoustic waves

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 102115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel A. Andreev ◽  
S. V. Kolesnikov
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Acoustic

scholarly journals Mechanisms for Flash Phase Phenomena in Solar Flares

1974 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 253-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean F. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Solar Flares ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Plasma Waves ◽  
Electron Plasma ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Fermi Acceleration ◽  
Acceleration Region ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Coulomb Collisions ◽  
The Earth

Mechanisms for explaining the various forms of particles and radiation observed during the flash phase of solar flares are reviewed under the working hypothesis that the flash phase is the time in which electrons and to a lesser degree protons are accelerated in less than one second. A succession of such accelerations is allowed to explain longer lasting or quasi-periodic phenomena. Mechanisms capable of such acceleration are reviewed and it is concluded that first-order Fermi acceleration in a reconnecting current sheet is the most likely basic process. Such acceleration, however, gives rise to a rather narrow distribution of particle velocities along a given field line which is unstable to the production of electron plasma and ion-acoustic waves. This plasma turbulence can heat the plasma to produce soft X-rays and filter the initially narrow velocity distribution to produce a power law energy distribution. Electrons travelling inward from the acceleration region produce hard X-rays by bremsstrahlung and microwave bursts by gyro-synchrotron emission. Whereas the interpretation of X-ray spectra is relatively straightforward, the interpretation of microwave spectra is difficult because the source at low frequencies can be made optically thick by several different mechanisms.Electrons travelling further inward presumably thermalize and produce impulsive EUV and Hα emission. The theory for these emissions, although amenable to present techniques in radiative transfer, has not been worked out. Electrons travelling outward give rise to type III radio bursts by excitation of electron plasma waves and the electrons observed at the Earth. Study of the interaction of a stream of electrons with the ambient plasma shows that the electron spectra observed at the Earth do not necessarily reflect their spectrum at the acceleration region since they interact via plasma waves as well as through Coulomb collisions. The mechanisms for the conversion of plasma waves into radiation and the propagation of the radiation from its source to the observer are reviewed.

scholarly journals Plasma wave mediated attractive potentials: a prerequisite for electron compound formation

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 975-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Treumann ◽  
W. Baumjohann
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Attractive Potential ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Lower Hybrid ◽  
Compound Formation ◽  
Electron Acoustic Waves ◽  
Heavy Electron ◽  
Electron Acoustic ◽  
Electron Compounds ◽  
Electron Compound

Abstract. Coagulation of electrons to form macro-electrons or compounds in high temperature plasma is not generally expected to occur. Here we investigate, based on earlier work, the possibility for such electron compound formation (non-quantum "pairing") mediated in the presence of various kinds of plasma waves via the generation of attractive electrostatic potentials, the necessary condition for coagulation. We confirm the possibility of production of attractive potential forces in ion- and electron-acoustic waves, pointing out the importance of the former and expected consequences. While electron-acoustic waves presumably do not play any role, ion-acoustic waves may potentially contribute to formation of heavy electron compounds. Lower-hybrid waves also mediate compound formation but under different conditions. Buneman modes which evolve from strong currents may also potentially cause non-quantum "pairing" among cavity-/hole-trapped electrons constituting a heavy electron component that populates electron holes. The number densities are, however, expected to be very small and thus not viable for justification of macro-particles. All these processes are found to potentially generate cold compound populations. If such electron compounds are produced by the attractive forces, the forces provide a mechanism of cooling a small group of resonant electrons, loosely spoken, corresponding to classical condensation.

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