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Drift waves in a slightly non-neutral plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. Nocentini
Affiliation:
Istituto di Meccanica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy and Laboratori Gas Ionizzati del C.N.E.N. Frascati Rome, Italy

Abstract

The influence of the lack of neutrality on the drift instabilities (collisionless and collisional) of a non-uniform, isothermal plasma is considered. It is shown that the local dispersion relation depends on the derivatives of the electric field present in the equilibrium of the nonneutral plasma. In particular the influence of the first two derivatives is discussed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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