Abstract
The propagation of plasma waves in unmagnetized plasmas has been the subject of several numerical and analytical studies since long time and surely represents a problem of crucial importance in plasma physics. In this paper we focus on the production of nonlinear plasma waves as the result of the so-called nonlinear Landau damping phenomenon in a realistic situation, where particle velocity diffusion is taken into account. The nonlinear Landau damping phenomenon of plasma waves has been recently analyzed in laboratory experiments with pure electron plasmas; we numerically reproduce this real experimental situation by means of collisional particle in cell (PIC) simulations that allow us to answer important questions: when and how do collisions affect the launching of nonlinear plasma waves?
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