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Effects of thermal spread on the space charge limit of an electron beam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

E. A. Coutsias
E. A. Coutsias
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Abstract

An asymptotic analysis is carried out to calculate the effects of a small thermal spread in the injection energy of an electron beam on its space charge limit. It is found that the space charge limit is lowered proportionally to the beam temperature T near T = 0.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 313 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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