Diffusion and radiation in magnetized collisionless plasmas with small-scale Whistler turbulence
Abstract
> Magnetized high-energy-density plasmas can often have strong electromagnetic fluctuations whose correlation scale is smaller than the electron Larmor radius. Radiation from the electrons in such plasmas - which markedly differs from both synchrotron and cyclotron radiation - is tightly related to their energy and pitch-angle diffusion. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical and numerical study of particle transport in cold, `small-scale' Whistler-mode turbulence and its relation to the spectra of radiation simultaneously produced by these particles. We emphasize that this relation is a superb diagnostic tool of laboratory, astrophysical, interplanetary and solar plasmas with a mean magnetic field and strong small-scale turbulence.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2016
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:1512.01284
- Bibcode:
- 2016JPlPh..82b9007K
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Plasma Physics
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 14 figures