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Neutrino Landau damping and collective neutrino–plasma processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2000

J. T. MENDONÇA
Affiliation:
GOLP/Centro de Física de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisvo Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
P. K. SHUKLA
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
R. B. BINGHAM
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K.
J. M. DAWSON
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
L. O. SILVA
Affiliation:
GOLP/Centro de Física de Plasmas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisvo Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Extract

The collective kinetic interaction of a neutrino distribution with electrostatic waves propagating in a dense plasma is considered. A Klimontovich-type kinetic equation for the neutrino gas in a plasma is derived, and the resulting kinetic description is applied to study the processes of the neutrino Landau damping and the neutrino-beam–plasma instability.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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