Spiraling ion beam driven electrostatic ion cyclotron wave instabilities in collisionless dusty plasma

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 1460352
Author(s):  
Shatendra Sharma ◽  
Jyotsna Sharma

The numerical calculations of the growth rate in long parallel wavelength are made for a spiraling ion beam propagating through a collision less magnetized dusty plasma cylinder that drives electrostatic ion cyclotron waves to instability via cyclotron interaction. It is found that the growth rate of the instability of the electrostatic ion cyclotron waves increase in the long parallel limit with the density ratio of negatively charged dust grains to electrons. The growth rate of the unstable mode has the maximum value for the modes whose Eigen functions peak at the location of the beam and varies as the one-third power of the beam current in both the limits.

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Sharma ◽  
V. K. Tripathi

A helical ion beam propagating through a plasma cylinder drives electrostatic ion-cyclotron waves to instability via cyclotron interaction. Higher harmonics of the beam cyclotron frequency can be generated in this way. The growth rate increases with the harmonic number. The efficiency of beam energy transfer to the wave can be of the order of a few per cent.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 033701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ved Prakash ◽  
Suresh C. Sharma ◽  
Vijayshri ◽  
Ruby Gupta

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
JYOTSNA SHARMA ◽  
SURESH C. SHARMA ◽  
V. K. JAIN ◽  
AJAY GAHLOT

AbstractA spiraling ion beam propagating through a magnetized plasma cylinder containing K+ light positive ions, electrons, and C7F14− heavy negative ions drives electrostatic ion–cyclotron waves to instability via cyclotron interaction. Higher harmonics of the beam cyclotron frequency can be generated in this way. The unstable mode frequencies and growth rates of both unstable light positive ions and heavy negative ions increase with the relative density of heavy negative ions. Moreover, the growth rate of unstable modes scales as the one-third power of the beam density. The growth rate of unstable modes increases with harmonic number. The frequencies of both unstable modes also increase with magnetic fields. In addition, the real part of both unstable modes (K+ and C7F14−) increases with the beam energy and scales as almost one-half power of the beam energy.


1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Hauck ◽  
H. Böhmer ◽  
N. Rynn ◽  
Gregory Benford

Ion-cyclotron waves are excited by cesium and potassium ion beams in cesium and potassium Q-machine plasmas. The ion beams are injected along the magnetic field with care to avoid beam transverse velocities. The observed ion-cyclotron mode frequencies are below those driven by electron currents. These resonant instabilities are convective in character with small spatial growth rates ki/kr ≃ 0.05. Plasma ion heating is observed and is consistent with a model in which mode amplitudes are saturated by diffusion effects.


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