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Filament model for a stationary field electron ring accelerator: the generalized Bernstein—Green—Kruskal problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

J. B. Ehrman
J. B. Ehrman
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario
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Abstract

The longitudinal behaviour of the electron ion ring in a stationary electron ring accelerator (ERA) is studied by means of a filament model which neglects the radial thickness of the ring. There are two widely different time scales (short or STS of the order of a bounce time in the ring, and long or LTS) that characterize the system. The Vlasov equations for a system which is stationary on the STS can be solved in the ion-pickup region by an approximation in which each species of particle essentially sees only a potential well formed by the other species. This gives a generalization of the classical Bernstein–Greene–Kruskal (BGK) problem, in which both species move in the same potential. The conditions under which this generalized BGK problem is well defined are given, and broad classes of quasi-equilibria (i.e. equilibria on the STS) are obtained. The time dependence on the LTS of some of these quasi-equilibria is then obtained by invoking charge conservation, momentum conservation and the adtained invariance of longitudinal action integrals. The stability of these quasi-equilibria (i.e. their behaviour under time-dependent perturbations on the STS) is deferred to a subsequent paper.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 233 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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