Anomalous skin effects in relativistic parallel propagating weakly magnetized electron plasma waves

Journal Article · Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3652694· OSTI ID:22046940

Abbas, Gohar; Bashir, M F ^[1]; Murtaza, G ^[1]

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1. Salam Chair in Physics, G. C. University, Lahore 54000 (Pakistan)

Fully relativistic analysis of anomalous skin effects for parallel propagating waves in a weakly magnetized electron plasma is presented and general expressions for longitudinal and transverse permittivites are derived. It is found that the penetration depth for R- and L-waves increases as we move from non-relativistic to highly relativistic regime. The ambient magnetic field reduces/enhances the skin effects for R-wave/L-wave as the strength of the field is increased. In general, the weak magnetic field effects are pronounced for the weakly relativistic regime as compared with other relativistic cases. The results are also graphically illustrated. On switching off the magnetic field, previous results for field free case are retrieved [A. F. Alexandrov, A. S. Bogdankevich, and A. A. Rukhadze, Priniples of Plasma Electrodynamics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1984), Vol. 9, p. 106].

• OSTI ID: 22046940
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 18, Issue 10; Other Information: (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON PLASMA WAVES
ELECTRONS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
PENETRATION DEPTH
PERMITTIVITY
RELATIVISTIC PLASMA
SEISMIC SURFACE WAVES
SKIN EFFECT
WAVE PROPAGATION