Plasma heating by an intense relativistic electron beam
- 1 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 23 (1) , 17-19
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654720
Abstract
A 400‐keV 40‐kA 50‐nsec‐duration relativistic electron beam is injected into a plasma confined in a magnetic mirror. It is found that the coupling efficiency of beam energy into the plasma at fixed magnetic field is optimum when the beam and plasma densities are comparable, and is independent of magnetic field, provided it exceeds 2.5 kG.Keywords
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