Steady-State Currents Driven by Collisionally Damped Lower-Hybrid Waves
Abstract
Low-power (<50 W) lower-hybrid waves excited in a linear plasma were observed to drive electron currents (a few milliamperes per watt) in the direction of the wave momentum when the waves were collisionally damped. An approximate solution of an electron kinetic equation with a Lorentz collision operator predicts an electron current in this experimental regime (k∥vtω~νω<<1).
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.245
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..44..245M
- Keywords:
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- Damping;
- Electron Scattering;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma Waves;
- Resistance Heating;
- Steady State;
- Current Density;
- Electric Current;
- Energy Technology;
- Particle Collisions;
- Reactor Design;
- Toroidal Plasmas;
- Plasma Physics