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Plasma heating by a relativistic electron beam with secondary instabilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
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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