Measurements of Beam Relaxation Length in an Electron Beam Plasma Experiment



Título del documento: Measurements of Beam Relaxation Length in an Electron Beam Plasma Experiment
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000309130
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1


2
Instituciones: 1Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Laboratorio Associado de Plasma, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2General Physics Institute, Plasma Physics Department, Moscú. Rusia
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 27
Número: 4
Paginación: 481-487
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés 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
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: 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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