Plasma Heating by High-Current Relativistic Electron Beams
- 8 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (19) , 1256-1259
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.1256
Abstract
A mechanism is proposed for the heating of a plasma with a high-current relativistic electron beam which makes essential use of the plasma return current induced by the beam. From overall energy conservation it is concluded that a large fraction of the beam energy is converted into plasma thermal energy. For reasonable parameters the heating occurs through ion sound turbulence generated by the plasma return current.Keywords
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