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Scattering of electromagnetic waves in a magnetized plasma with an HF pump

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2002

V. N. PAVLENKO
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauki 47, 252028, Kiev-28, Ukraine (vpavlen@kinr.kiev.ua; vpanch@kinr.kiev.ua; nazaren@kinr.kiev.ua)
V. G. PANCHENKO
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauki 47, 252028, Kiev-28, Ukraine (vpavlen@kinr.kiev.ua; vpanch@kinr.kiev.ua; nazaren@kinr.kiev.ua)
S. A. NAZARENKO
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauki 47, 252028, Kiev-28, Ukraine (vpavlen@kinr.kiev.ua; vpanch@kinr.kiev.ua; nazaren@kinr.kiev.ua)

Abstract

The scattering of transverse electromagnetic waves by turbulent density fluctuations in a magnetized plasma in the presence of external pump fields is investigated. The case where a lower-hybrid pump wave decays into daughter and ion-cyclotron waves in a plasma with ion-temperature anisotropy is considered. The situation where an upper-hybrid pump wave parametrically excites modified convective cells and electron drift waves is also analyzed. The differential scattering cross-sections in the region above the parametric instability thresholds for these three cases are calculated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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