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About the most unstable modes encountered in beam plasma interaction physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

ANTOINE BRET ,
MARIE-CHRISTINE FIRPO  and
CLAUDE DEUTSCH
ANTOINE BRET
Affiliation:
ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
MARIE-CHRISTINE FIRPO
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et de Technologie des Plasmas (CNRS-UMR 7648), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau cedex, France
CLAUDE DEUTSCH
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas (CNRS-UMR 8578), Université Paris XI, Orsay cedex, France
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Abstract

A thorough analysis of the electromagnetic instabilities encountered in the beam plasma interaction physics shows that the most unstable modes are not the ones which are usually studies. We characterize these most unstable modes and determine the patterns they create.

Keywords

Filamentation instabilityTwo-stream instabilityWeibel instability
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 117 - 119
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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