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Collisional and collisionless beam plasma instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

Antoine Bret
Antoine Bret*
Affiliation:
ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Antoine Bret, ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Collisions are a key issue regarding the instabilities involved in the fast ignition scenario for inertial confinement fusion. Because of the plasma density gradient through which the relativistic electron beam travels, unstable modes are collisionless at the beginning of the path, and collisional near the target core. While some works have been done on both regimes, the transition from the former to the later remains unclear. By implementing a hot fluid model accounting for a collisional return current, a theory is presented which bridges between the two regimes. The transition from one regime to the other is detailed in terms of the beam-to-plasma density ratio and the collision frequency. Purely collisional modes are found to arise at very low k, compared to the collisionless ones, and generate beam skin-depth size structures in accordance to previous works on resistive filamentation.

Keywords

Collisional beam plasmaCollisionless beam plasmaFast ignitionHot fluid modelInertial confinement fusionRelativistic electron beam
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 491 - 495
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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