Force balance limiting current for charged particle beams
Abstract
A limiting current for cold, relativistic, charged particle beams is derived. Arbitrary rotation and axial flow profiles are allowed. Only force balance is required. A comparison with the usual Brillouin condition reveals a significantly more restrictive scaling for ambitious beam parameters.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- July 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984fblc.rept.....K
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Flow Distribution;
- Particle Beams;
- Space Charge;
- Brillouin Effect;
- Microwave Equipment;
- Scaling Laws;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics