| Issue |
EPL
Volume 98, Number 5, June 2012
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 54003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/54003 | |
| Published online | 12 June 2012 | |
Rarefaction shock waves in collisionless plasma with an electron beam
1
Department of Physics, Technion - Haifa 32000, Israel
2
Department of Civil Engineering, Technion - Haifa 32000, Israel
a
lfel@techunix.technion.ac.il
Received:
9
February
2012
Accepted:
18
May
2012
We show that an electron beam passing through a collisionless plasma of “cold” ions and “hot” Boltzmann electrons can give rise to the propagation of supersonic ion-acoustic rarefaction shock waves. These waves are analogous to those predicted by Zeldovich (Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz., 16 (1946) 363) in gas dynamics and complementary to the ion-acoustic compression shock waves in the collisionless plasma described by Sagdeev (Rev. Plasma Phys., 4 (1966) 23).
PACS: 47.40.-x – Compressible flows; shock waves / 52.35.Tc – Shock waves and discontinuities
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