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Intermittency or noise – an experimental study on the ion-beam driven ion-acoustic instability

✍ Scribed by C Franck; T Klinger; A Piel


Book ID
104337579
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
279 KB
Volume
259
Category
Article
ISSN
0375-9601

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✦ Synopsis


Ion-acoustic waves are destabilised in a double-plasma device by ion-beam-plasma interaction. The plasma system destabilises via a supercritical Hopf-bifurcation with the control parameter being subject to noise. This leads to erratic fluctuations between stable and oscillatory states. The experimental results, in particular the statistical properties, show that this has to be distinguished from type-I intermittency transition to chaos as reported previously for similar experimental setups.