Isolated unstable Weibel modes in unmagnetized plasmas with tunable asymmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/29/F04MaRDI QIDQ3594663zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. C. Tautz, I. Lerche

Publication date 9 August 2007

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2122

zbMATH Keywords

electron-positron plasmatwo stream instabilityWeibel modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: In this letter, an initially unmagnetized pair plasma with asymmetric velocity distributions is investigated where any unstable Weibel mode must be isolated, with discrete values for the growth rates and the unstable wavenumbers. For both a non-relativistic distribution with thermal spread and a high-relativistic two-stream distribution it is shown that isolated modes are excited and that, as the asymmetry tends to zero, the growth rate remains finite, as long as the distribution function is not precisely symmetric.

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