Mirror mode junctions as sources of radiation
arXiv:2101.00637 · doi:10.3389/fspas.2021.648744
Abstract
Mirror modes in collisionless high-temperature plasmas represent macroscopic high-temperature quasi-superconductors with bouncing electrons in discrete-particle resonance with thermal ion-sound noise contributing to the ion-mode growth beyond quasilinear stability. In the semi-classical GL approximation the conditions for phase transition are given. The quasi-superconducting state is of second kind causing a magnetically perforated plasma texture. Focussing on the interaction of mirror bubbles we apply semi-classical Josephson conditions and show that a mirror perforated plasma emits weak electromagnetic radiation which in the magnetosheath is in the sub-millimeter respectively infrared range.
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