Prevalence of non-standard collapsing of strong Langmuir turbulence in solar corona plasmas

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Main Authors: Li, Yaokun, Sun, Haomin, Ning, Hao, Ni, Sulan, Kong, Xiangliang, He, Jiansen, Chen, Yao
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author Li, Yaokun
Sun, Haomin
Ning, Hao
Ni, Sulan
Kong, Xiangliang
He, Jiansen
Chen, Yao
author_facet Li, Yaokun
Sun, Haomin
Ning, Hao
Ni, Sulan
Kong, Xiangliang
He, Jiansen
Chen, Yao
contents We present a fully-kinetic simulation of the full life cycle of strong Langmuir turbulence (SLT) excited by electron beams that are accelerated under the solar corona conditions. We find that (1) most packets ($\sim$80%) are affected by their neighbors during their collapse, as a result, their spatial scale variations present non-standard evolutionary features, i.e., deviating away from what was predicted by the Zakharov model; (2) the collapsing cavity is too shallow to trap the wave packet due to the growth of the Coulomb force, as a result a majority ($\sim$70%) of the packet energy runs away and a secondary localization may occur. The study indicates that the non-standard Langmuir collapse may play an important role in coronal plasmas interacting with an intense electron beam, that may be eventually confirmed by humanity's first mission to fly through the corona.
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spellingShingle Prevalence of non-standard collapsing of strong Langmuir turbulence in solar corona plasmas
Li, Yaokun
Sun, Haomin
Ning, Hao
Ni, Sulan
Kong, Xiangliang
He, Jiansen
Chen, Yao
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
Space Physics
We present a fully-kinetic simulation of the full life cycle of strong Langmuir turbulence (SLT) excited by electron beams that are accelerated under the solar corona conditions. We find that (1) most packets ($\sim$80%) are affected by their neighbors during their collapse, as a result, their spatial scale variations present non-standard evolutionary features, i.e., deviating away from what was predicted by the Zakharov model; (2) the collapsing cavity is too shallow to trap the wave packet due to the growth of the Coulomb force, as a result a majority ($\sim$70%) of the packet energy runs away and a secondary localization may occur. The study indicates that the non-standard Langmuir collapse may play an important role in coronal plasmas interacting with an intense electron beam, that may be eventually confirmed by humanity's first mission to fly through the corona.
title Prevalence of non-standard collapsing of strong Langmuir turbulence in solar corona plasmas
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05467