Nonlinear Evolution of the Electron-Beam-Plasma Instability
Abstract
Detailed experimental studies of the nonlinear evolution of an electron-beam-plasma instability reveal trapping of unstable electron-plasma waves by ion-acoustic modes as well as scattering of beam electrons.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1047
- Bibcode:
- 1976PhRvL..36.1047I
- Keywords:
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- Electron Beams;
- High Energy Electrons;
- Ion Acoustic Waves;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Argon Plasma;
- Electron Scattering;
- Plasma Turbulence;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Trapped Particles;
- Wave Propagation;
- Plasma Physics