
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brown, IG 
T1  - Some Experimental Observations of the Attenuation of Alfven Waves in a Laboratory Plasma
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1965
VL  - 18
IS  - 5
SP  - 437
EP  - 450
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH650437 
N2  - An experiment is described in which the velocity and attenuation of torsional, azimuthally symmetric, hydromagnetic waves are measured in a hydrogenous plasma, from low frequencies where ion-neutral collisions are unimportant to the wave damping, to frequencies where such collisions profoundly affect the damping. A theory including both ion-electron and ion-neutral collisions is outlined, and the attenuation results are compared with the theoretical values. An estimate is made, from the frequency dependence of the attenuation, of the hydrogen ion-atom collision cross section for momentum transfer. 
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