Abstract

We have determined the wave propagation and damping properties in a collisionless thermal plasma for which ..beta.., the ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure, is much greater than unity. We achieve this by solving the full collisionless dispersion relation as an expansion in 1/..beta... To do this we develop a set of iteration methods which converge to this solution. We illustrate these results with two applications, the trapping of cosmic rays in supernovae remnants and the collisionless damping of hydromagnetic turbulence.

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