Effects of Coulomb collisions on lower hybrid drift waves inside a laboratory reconnection current sheet

Yoo, Jongsoo; Hu, Yibo; Ji, Jeong-Young; Ji, Hantao; Yamada, Masaaki; Goodman, Aaron; Bergstedt, Kendra; Fox, William; Alt, Andrew

doi:10.1063/5.0052555

Effects of Coulomb collisions on lower hybrid drift waves inside a laboratory reconnection current sheet

Journal Article · Wed Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0052555· OSTI ID:1856198

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Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Soochow University, Suzhou (China)
Utah State University, Logan, UT (United States)

We have developed a local, linear theoretical model for lower hybrid drift waves that can be used for plasmas in the weakly collisional regime. Two cases with typical plasma and field parameters for the current sheet of the magnetic reconnection experiment have been studied. For a case with a low electron beta (β_e=0.25, high guide field case), the quasi-electrostatic lower hybrid drift wave is unstable, while the electromagnetic lower hybrid drift wave has a positive growth rate for a high-β_e case (β_e=8.9, low guide field case). For both cases, including the effects of Coulomb collisions reduces the growth rate but collisional impacts on the dispersion and growth rate are limited (≲20%).

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Research Organization:: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-09CH11466; FG02-04ER54746

OSTI ID:: 1856198

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1845349

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 29; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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