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Non-linear Landau damping of electromagnetic cyclotron waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Jibayo Akinrimisi
Affiliation:
Center for Radiophysics and space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
R. N. Sudan
Affiliation:
Center for Radiophysics and space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850

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The non-linear scattering of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves is studied. Expressions for matrix elements of interaction are derived and for interacting right-handed circularly polarized waves (whistler waves) the matrix is explicitly calculated for particular velocity distribution functions of electrons. Non-linear damping rates are computed.It is shown that non-linear scattering is not in general a dominant process for whistlers in the magnetosphere.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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