The Coexistence of Orthogonal Current Structures and the Development of Different-Type Weibel Instabilities in Adjacent Regions of a Plasma Transition Layer with a Hot Electron Flow

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Abstract—By means of particle-in-cell numerical simulations, we find the possibility of the formation and
long-term coexistence of orthogonal current structures in adjacent layers of an inhomogeneous cold plasma
penetrated by a hot electron flow. The formationof these structures is shown to occur in a wide range of
parameters specifying collisionless expansion of high-energy electrons out of a dense plasma into a rarefied
plasma. These structures originate due to the development of Weibel instabilities of two different types that
are associated with qualitatively different anisotropic electron velocity distributions. Experiments with a laser
plasma produced in the course of target ablation by means of quasi-cylindrical focusing of a high-power femtosecond-
laser radiation beam are proposed in order to observe the predicted phenomenon

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M. A. Garasev

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: kochar@ipfran.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603155 Russia

Vl. V. Kocharovsky

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lobachevsky University

Email: kochar@ipfran.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603155 Russia

A. A. Nechaev

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: kochar@ipfran.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603155 Russia

A. N. Stepanov

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: kochar@ipfran.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603155 Russia

V. V. Kocharovsky

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Author for correspondence.
Email: kochar@ipfran.ru
College Station, TX 77843, United States

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