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The structure of the RF magnetic field in the vicinity of a loop antenna operating in the whistler frequency range has been studied experimentally and theoretically. The experiments were performed over a wide frequency range at different values of the plasma density, electron temperature, and ambient magnetic field strength. It is shown that, when a loop antenna is smaller than the wavelength of a quasi-longitudinal whistler, the structure of the magnetic field of such an antenna is nearly the same as that of the field of a current-carrying loop in vacuum; otherwise, the RF field is localized near the antenna wire. The results of numerical calculations agree with the measured field distributions. The antenna field is calculated by expanding it in the eigenmodes of a magnetized plasma with allowance for not only propagating but also nonpropagating (exponentially decaying) waves, which make the main contribution to the near field. An analytic estimate of the depth to which the RF magnetic field of a loop antenna penetrates into the plasma is obtained.
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Original Russian Text © S.V. Korobkov, M.E. Gushchin, A.V. Kostrov, A.V. Strikovskiĭ, C. Krafft, 2007, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 120–127.
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Korobkov, S.V., Gushchin, M.E., Kostrov, A.V. et al. Near field of a loop antenna operating in plasma in the whistler frequency range. Plasma Phys. Rep. 33, 102–108 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X07020031
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