Electromagnetic waves in a relativistic plasma stream: fusion instability
Abstract
We derive the dispersion formulae for electromagnetic waves including relativistic kinematics and a corresponding Maxwellian equilibrium distribution function without any approximations and having anisotropy in the streaming velocity. For non-relativistic temperatures, waves propagate when the streaming velocity is much smaller than the thermal velocity of the species, with varying thermal modes.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982JPlPh..27..205M