Journal
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3140037
Keywords
Boltzmann equation; plasma Alfven waves; plasma collision processes; plasma magnetohydrodynamics
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- NSF [ATM 0317310]
- DOE [DE-FG02-06ER54890]
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Measurements of shear Alfven waves are used to test the predictions of a variety of different electron collision operators, including several Krook collision operators as well as a Lorentz collision operator. New expressions for the collisional warm-plasma dielectric tensor resulting from the use of the fully magnetized collisional Boltzmann equation are presented here. Theoretical predictions for the parallel phase velocity and damping as a function of perpendicular wave number k(perpendicular to) are derived from the dielectric tensor. Laboratory measurements of the parallel phase velocity and damping of shear Alfven waves were made to test these theoretical predictions in both the kinetic (v(te)> v(A)) and inertial (v(te)< v(A)) parameter regimes and at several wave frequencies (omega
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