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On a new scenario for the saturation of the low-threshold two-plasmon parametric decay instability of an extraordinary wave in the inhomogeneous plasma of magnetic traps

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The most probable scenario for the saturation of the low-threshold two-plasmon parametric decay instability of an electron cyclotron extraordinary wave has been analyzed. Within this scenario two upperhybrid plasmons at frequencies close to half the pump wave frequency radially trapped in the vicinity of the local maximum of the plasma density profile are excited due to the excitation of primary instability. The primary instability saturation results from the decays of the daughter upper-hybrid waves into secondary upperhybrid waves that are also radially trapped in the vicinity of the local maximum of the plasma density profile and ion Bernstein waves.

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    E. Z. Gusakov, A. Yu. Popov & M. A. Irzak

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Original Russian Text © E.Z. Gusakov, A.Yu. Popov, M.A. Irzak, 2016, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 833–845.

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Gusakov, E.Z., Popov, A.Y. & Irzak, M.A. On a new scenario for the saturation of the low-threshold two-plasmon parametric decay instability of an extraordinary wave in the inhomogeneous plasma of magnetic traps. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 123, 723–734 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776116110108

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