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Plasma heating by a relativistic electron beam with secondary instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

T. Tajima
T. Tajima
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Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Relativistic electron beam heating of a dense plasma through the two-stream instability is studied. A large amplitude beam-plasma wave excited by the instability induces waves of wide wavenumber spectrum at low phase velocities through secondary parametric instability processes. In some cases such a complicated mode coupling of the beam-plasma wave into low phase velocity waves and their saturation may be described in terms of soliton formation. A beam stopping length associated with this process is obtained.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 63 - 75
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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