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Resonant interaction of electron cyclotron waves with a plasma containing arbitrarily drifting suprathermal electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. Orefice
Affiliation:
Università di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano and Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, Associazione CNR/EURATOM, Milano

Abstract

A relativistic treatment of the plasma dispersion functions and of the dielectric tensor for electron cyclotron electromagnetic waves is given for non-thermal plasmas where the electron distribution function can be represented as a combination of Maxwellians with arbitrary drifts along the magnetic field.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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