Laboratory Simulation of Ionospheric Double-Layers
Abstract
A mechanism for double-layer formation in partially- or fully-ionized plasmas is described, founded on beam-plasma interaction: RF growth along the beam excites a rectified, ponderomotive electric field, which in turn causes charge separation. Laboratory studies of the mechanism are described.
- Publication:
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Wave Instabilities in Space Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979wisp.proc..129C
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Physics;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Plasma Layers;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Polarization (Charge Separation);
- Atmospheric Ionization;
- Electron Energy;
- Ionization Potentials;
- Ponderomotive Forces;
- Geophysics