Effects of ambient plasma and background temperature on the beam-plasma instability and beam-plasma discharge at low pressures in bounded systems
Abstract
The electrostatic instability of bounded beam -plasma systems as well as its consequences on the ignition of the beam -plasma discharge (BPD) at low pressures and magnetic field strengths are investigated. For this purpose, configurations consisting of a finite radius electron-beam -plasma system whose edge is far away from a confining coaxial metallic container are considered; an ambient, partially ionized gas filling the container is also present.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800026672
- Bibcode:
- 1982JPlPh..27..363R
- Keywords:
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- Beam Injection;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Interaction Experiment;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Electron Beams;
- Electrostatic Waves;
- Ionized Gases;
- Low Pressure;
- Plasma Currents;
- Plasma Jets;
- Plasma Temperature;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Temperature Effects;
- Threshold Currents;
- Plasma Physics