Abstracto

Parametric Instability of a Lower Hybrid Wave in Two Ion Species Plasma

Nafis A, Moiz A

Three wave parametric instability of a large amplitude lower hybrid wave in two-ion species plasma is studied analytically. The pump decays into a low frequency mode or quasi mode in the ion cyclotron range of frequency and a lower hybrid wave sideband. The dominant channel of decay is the one for which the low frequency mode is an ion cyclotron wave with frequency close to the ion cyclotron frequency of either ion species. For typical D-T plasma of a tokamak, the growth rate for ω close to deuterium cyclotron frequency, increases with the wave number of the ion cyclotron wave and decreases as the ratio of deuterium to tritium density increases.