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Electron acceleration by stochastic wave packets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. Rolland
P. Rolland
Affiliation:
Association Euratom-CEA, Département de Recherches sur la Fusion Contrôlée, Service IGn – Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, 85 X – 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France
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Abstract

An analytical theory for the time evolution of the distribution function, energy and current of an assembly of electrons submitted to a quasi-sinusoidal stochastic field is given. To the first order, energy and current are obtained using Sturrock's stochastic acceleration theory. The calculation of the transition probability enables us to get the distortion of the distribution function, and to recover the preceding first-order results. To the second order, collisions are taken into account, in the framework of the two-dimensional theory. The turn-on time for the current is evaluated. The results obtained are compared with the numerical results of Karney & Fisch.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , August 1982 , pp. 37 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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