Weibel instability on weakly relativistic produced plasma by circular polarization microwave electric field

Mohammad Ghorbanalilu (1) , B. Shokri (2)

1 ITAU - Islamic Tabriz Azad University
2 PD - Physics Department

The production of weakly relativistic plasma by microwave electric field with circular polarization has been studied. Electron distribution function obtained for this produced plasma and shown that it is non-equilibrium and anisotropic. It is shown that produced plasma accelerated on direction of propagation microwave electric field. The electron velocity on this direction strongly depends on electron origination phase during ionization and microwave electric field phase and it s amplitude. The dielectric tensor obtained for this plasma and the weibel instability studied for it.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Mohammad Ghorbanalilu, B. Shokri. Weibel instability on weakly relativistic produced plasma by circular polarization microwave electric field. 2004. ⟨hal-00002425⟩