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A note on the two-stream instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. C. Clemmow
P. C. Clemmow
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Conditions for the instability of longitudinal waves in a single-component two-stream plasma, in which the streams have the same velocity spread, are given in the form of simple relations between the density ratio and the mean velocity difference of the streams.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 85 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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