Oxygen-ion-beam-driven electrostatic ion cyclotron instability of hydrogen plasma

The electrostatic ion cyclotron instability of hydrogen plasma driven by an oxygen ion beam and resulting turbulent heating of both ion species is investigated. The instability growth rate exceeds the oxygen ion gyrofrequency, so that the oxygen ions may be considered as unmagnetized during the process of waves growth. As a result the instability is developed due to inverse Landau damping of the ion cyclotron waves caused by thermal motion of oxygen ions across the magnetic field. The quasilinear analysis of the turbulent heating of both ion species resulted from their interactions with ion cyclotron turbulence indicates that this instability may be responsible for the observed anisotropic heating of auroral outflowing oxygen O+ ions in the ionosphere.