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Transverse electromagnetic modes in a hot cylindrical plasma column

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

M. Shoucri
Affiliation:
Centre Canadien de Fusion Magnétique, Varennes, Québec, CanadaJ3X 1S1

Extract

We derive the dielectric tensor of a hot plasma by including the smallgyroradius corrections up to the first harmonic (ω ≈ 2ω). We show that these corrections introduce radial wavenumbers associated with transverse electromagnetic modes (TEM). The special case of a cylindrical plasma column is discussed for a hydrogen plasma at the ion-cyclotron frequency and for an electron plasma at the electron-cyclotron frequency and its first harmonic.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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