Symmetric and Anti-Symmetric Damping Modes of Trivelpiece–Gould Waves in Weakly and Completely Ionized Plasma Waveguides

Abstract

The collision effects on the low-frequency ion-acoustic Trivelpiece–Gould wave are investigated in weakly and completely ionized plasma waveguides by using the normal mode analysis. In weakly ionized plasma waveguides, it is found that the dependence of the harmonic mode on the absolute value of the scaled damping rate shows the opposite tendency for large and small radii of the cylindrical waveguide. It is also is found that the scaled damping rates for both weakly and completely ionized plasma waveguides decrease with an increase of the electron temperature. It is interesting to note that the scaled damping rate for weakly ionized plasma waveguides shows anti-symmetric behavior when the Trivelpiece–Gould wave propagates in the negative-z direction. However, it is found that the scaled damping rate for completely ionized plasma waveguides shows the symmetric behavior when the Trivelpiece–Gould wave propagates in the negative-z direction.