The plasmapause as a plasma sheath: a minimum thickness

dc.contributor.author	Roth, M.
dc.date	1976
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-01T12:11:13Z
dc.date.available	2017-09-01T12:11:13Z
dc.identifier.uri	https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/6090
dc.description	We consider the plasmapause as a stationary boundary layer (a sheath) separating two types of plasmas characterized by different temperatures and densities: on one side, the hot trapped particles imbedded in the cold exospheric plasma of ionospheric origin, and on the other side the plasmatrough including the hot ring current particles. The structure of this layer is described by a kinetic model using the Vlasov-Maxwell's equations for the charged particles and fields. In absence of any collisional effects or wave-particle interactions a minimum value for the thickness of the plasmapause is deduced which is of the order of 5 times the Larmor radius of the cold ions.
dc.language	eng
dc.title	The plasmapause as a plasma sheath: a minimum thickness
dc.type	Article
dc.subject.frascati	Physical sciences
dc.audience	Scientific
dc.source.title	Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
dc.source.volume	38
dc.source.issue	11
dc.source.page	1065-1070
Orfeo.peerreviewed	Yes
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/0021-9169(76)90035-0
dc.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-2342545865