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Excitation of lower-hybrid waves in dusty plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2005

M. TORNEY
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (torney@phys.strath.ac.uk)
C. MARMOLINO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento S.T.A.T, Università del Molise, Italy
U. DE ANGELIS
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli, Italy
A. FORLANI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli, Italy
R. BINGHAM
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (torney@phys.strath.ac.uk) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK

Abstract

A dispersion relation is derived detailing the effect of a population of charged dust grains on the growth of lower-hybrid waves excited by a ring distribution of ions in a plasma. Numerical solutions show that the instability can be enhanced or reduced depending on the parameter regime.

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Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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