Sheared flow excitation and suppression of electrostatic instabilities in laboratory collisionless magnetoplasmas

R. Hatakeyama, T. Kaneko

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Abstract

The ion-cyclotron instabilities in a collisionless magnetoplasma are observed to be stabilized by a perpendicular plasma flow shear independently of the sign of the shear. This suppression of the ion-cyclotron instabilities is caused only when the perpendicular flow shear exists outside the disk electrode which excites the instabilities by applying a positive bias voltage to it. This phenomenon can be explained by the excitation mechanism of ion-cyclotron instabilities such as potential driven model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)200-203
Number of pages4
JournalPhysica Scripta T
VolumeT107
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
EventInternational Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium - Santorini Island, Greece
Duration: 2003 Sept 82003 Sept 12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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