Instability of ion beams neutralized by co-moving electrons
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 52 (4) , 3016-3019
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.329047
Abstract
Analysis and particle simulations are used to show that an ion beam moving in vacuum surrounded by conducting walls can only be stably neutralized by co-moving electrons for currents below the threshold for the Pierce instability. These results indicate that the Pierce instability may be a problem in ion beam fusion schemes that rely on co-moving electrons for neutralization.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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