Electron heating by the magnetic field-aligned electron-cyclotron waves in plasmas |
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Authors: | P.K. Shukla |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany |
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Abstract: | It is shown that resonant nonlinear interactions between the magnetic-field aligned right-hand circularly polarized electromagnetic (CPEM) electron-cyclotron waves and electrons can produce electron temperature anisotropy due to the stochastic electron heating by waves in magnetized plasmas. The present result can thus account for the simultaneous presence of CPEM waves and an anisotropic electron temperature distribution in laboratory and space magnetoplasmas. |
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Keywords: | 52.35.Sb 95.30.Qd 96.60.P- |
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