Relativistic electron dynamics in a cusped magnetic field with a downstream drift region

1 December 1975

journal article
letter
Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids

Vol. 18 (12) , 1820-1822
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.861067

Abstract

Studies are reported of the motion of relativistic electrons injected first through a narrow magnetic cusp and then into a downstream region in which the particle motion is assumed to be adiabatic. Experiments performed to check the theory are also presented.

Keywords

ELECTRONS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
CUSPED GEOMETERS
PLASMA BEAM INJECTION
PLASMA DRIFT
BEAM=(HYPHEN)=PLASMA SYSTEMS

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Relativistic electron dynamics in a cusped magnetic field
Physics of Fluids, 1974
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