Exploring the Alfvén-wave acceleration of auroral electrons in the laboratory
Inertial Alfvén waves occur in plasmas where the Alfvén speed is greater than the electron thermal speed and the scale of wave field structure across the background magnetic field is comparable to the electron skin depth. Such waves have an electric field aligned with the background magnetic field t...
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University of Iowa
2017
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5846 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7324&context=etd |