Measurements of Beam Relaxation Length in an Electron Beam Plasma Experiment



Document title: Measurements of Beam Relaxation Length in an Electron Beam Plasma Experiment
Journal: Brazilian journal of physics
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000309130
ISSN: 0103-9733
Authors: 1


2
Institutions: 1Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Laboratorio Associado de Plasma, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2General Physics Institute, Plasma Physics Department, Moscú. Rusia
Year:
Season: Dic
Volumen: 27
Number: 4
Pages: 481-487
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental
English abstract A double plasma device with multipole surface magnetic confinement is used to investigate the beam relaxation length of beam plasma interaction as a function of the beam plasma density ratio, 10-4 £ nb/no £ 2 x 10-2, and beam energy Wb £ 200 eV in an unmagnetized plasma, using argon and helium gases. The measured relaxation lengths show a transition from quasi-linear to nonlinear regime, as predicted by Galeev et al., 1977. There is evidence that for some range of the beam plasma parameters the threshold for modulational instability is reached. In that case it is possible to observe that the beam propagates relatively unperturbed for larger distances than the ones predicted by quasi-linear theory
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Teoría cinética y plasmas,
Longitud de relajación de haces,
Haz de plasma
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Kinetic theory and plasma,
Beam relaxation length,
Beam plasma
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