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Quasilinear collisionless electron heating in a weakly magnetized inductively coupled plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2004

F. SOHBATZADEH  and
H. LATIFI
F. SOHBATZADEH
Affiliation:
Laser Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran (f-sohbatzadeh@cc.sbu.ac.ir)
H. LATIFI
Affiliation:
Laser Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran (f-sohbatzadeh@cc.sbu.ac.ir)
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Abstract

Collisionless electron heating in a low-pressure weakly magnetized inductively coupled plasma is considered by means of quasilinear theory. We use a one-dimensional slab model of an inductively coupled plasma with a penetrating radio frequency (RF) electric field given by an exponential function. Diffusion coefficients in velocity space are obtained regarding the induced RF electric field and induced polarization electric field (DC electric field). It is shown that the induced polarization electric field has a significant contribution to the collisionless electron heating. We consider the influence of the quasilinear collision integral on the evolution of the symmetric part of the electron energy distribution function.

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Papers
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 70 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 671 - 680
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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