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Current Filamentation Instability
 

Newsletters 2011

February 2011: The Current Filamentation Instability, CFI, is a basic beam/plasma instability with implications in astrophysics and the fast igniter fusion concept. It may occur in the parameter regime with a relativistic beam and where the transverse beam size is much larger than the plasma skin depth. In this case the plasma return current flows through the electron bunch and slight current imbalances generate magnetic fields that drive the instability.

 

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