Collision-driven negative-energy waves and the weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam in a quasineutral plasma.
A new model describing the Weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. For finite-temperature beams, a new class of negative-energy magnetosound waves is identified, whose growth due to collisional dissipation destabilizes the beam-plasma system even for high beam temperatures. We perform 2D and 3D particle-in-cell simulations and show that in 3D geometry the Weibel instability persists even for collisionless background plasma. The anomalous plasma resistivity in 3D is caused by the two-stream instability.
Karmakar
Anupam
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Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany.
Kumar
Naveen
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Shvets
Gennady
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Polomarov
Oleg
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Pukhov
Alexander
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