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Theory of nonlinear interaction of particles and waves in an inverse plasma maser. Part 1. Collision integral
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
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An expression is obtained for the collision integral describing the simultaneous interaction of plasma particles with resonant and non-resonant waves. It is shown that this collision integral is determined by two processes: a ‘direct’ nonlinear interaction of particles and waves, and the influence of the non-stationarity of the system. The expression for the nonlinear collision integral is found to be quite different from the expression for a quasi-linear collision integral; in particular, the nonlinear integral contains higher-order derivatives of the distribution function with respect to momentum than the quasi-linear one.
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