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Suppression of runaway of electrons in a Lorentz plasma.: I. Harmonically time varying electric field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Barbara Abraham-Shrauner
Barbara Abraham-Shrauner
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130
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Abstract

The suppression of runaway electrons in a Lorentz plasma is demonstrated for a two-component, fully ionized plasma in the presence of a high frequency, weak, uniform electric field. The time for runaway to occur for electric field frequencies high compared to the collision frequency is longer than the runaway time for low electric field frequencies or zero frequency, by the ratio of the frequency of the electric field to the collision frequency squared. Both the resolvant method developed by Prigogine and co-workers and the double perturbation scheme of the Poincaré—Lighthill method are employed to derive the diffusion equation for the modified one-particle distribution function in the collision-dominated region of velocity space.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1970 , pp. 387 - 402
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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