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arxiv: 1605.09372 · v1 · pith:JTDFRA3Mnew · submitted 2016-05-30 · ⚛️ physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.HE

Hierarchy of instabilities for two counter-streaming magnetized pair beams

classification ⚛️ physics.plasm-ph astro-ph.HE
keywords beamsdifferentmodesanalysiscounter-streamingfieldgammahierarchy
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The instabilities triggered when two counter-streaming pair beams collide are analyzed. A guiding magnetic field is accounting for, while both beams are considered identical and cold. The instability analysis is conducted over the full \textbf{k}-spectrum, allowing to derive the hierarchy map of the dominant unstable modes, in terms of the initial beams energy $\gamma_0$ and a magnetic field strength parameter $\Omega_B$. Four different regions of the $(\Omega_B,\gamma_0)$ phase space are identified, each one governed by a different kind of mode. The analysis also unravels the existence of a "triple point", where 3 different modes grow exactly the same rate. A number of analytical expressions can be derived, either for the modes growth-rates, or for the frontiers between the 4 regions.

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