Mitigation of multispecies Weibel instability in a finite non-neutral magnetized beam-plasma system

Sam Yaghoubi, Abbas Ghasemizad, and Soheil Khoshbinfar
Phys. Rev. E 101, 053206 – Published 21 May 2020

Abstract

Compressing and charge neutralization of the heavy-ion beam in an inertial fusion reactor are considered as pivotal processes for increasing the energy gain. For this purpose, the ion beam is usually transported through the plasma channel so that multispecies Weibel instability can grow in this system. Recently, a small solenoidal magnetic field has been added to this method to have additional control of these processes. On the other hand, charge and current may not be completely neutralized in this transport; as a result, the fractional charge and current neutralization can affect the growth rate of this instability. In this work, the dispersion equation has been obtained in cylindrical, cold, magnetized, non-neutral plasma in the macroscopic fluid frame. Numerical results show that if the electron cyclotron frequency of the background plasma normalized by plasma frequency is larger than the ion beam velocity normalized by the speed of light, as well as the current fraction being smaller than 1/2, the eigenmodes of multispecies Weibel instability can be completely stabilized. Moreover, these results are valid when the percent deviation from the charge-neutral state is positive. In the negative regime of percent deviation, the instability increases drastically so that the system can be completely unstable only for more than 2%. Therefore, selecting the radius of the ion beam smaller than the electron skin depth of the plasma and the beam pulse duration much longer than the plasma oscillation time are proposed for quenching of this instability.

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  • Received 5 February 2020
  • Accepted 22 April 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.053206

©2020 American Physical Society

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Plasma Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Sam Yaghoubi, Abbas Ghasemizad*, and Soheil Khoshbinfar

  • Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Guilan, P.O. Box 41335-1914 Rasht, Iran

  • *Corresponding author: ghasemi@guilan.ac.ir

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Vol. 101, Iss. 5 — May 2020

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