Abstract
This paper reports that ion-neutral collisions in a magnetized plasma cause a drastic change in the dispersion relation of the shear Alfvén wave with poloidal mode number m=0, connecting to the branch of the m=+1 compressional Alfvén wave at frequencies below the ion-cyclotron frequency. An anomaly of the dispersion then appears on the refractive index curve and a wave packet in this frequency range undergoes strong amplitude damping and profile deformation. It is confirmed that the Kramers-Kronig relation holds for the dielectric function, estimated from both the measured refractive index and damping rate.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 360-363 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)