The Effect of Finite Ion Mass on the Stability of a Space-Charge-Neutralized Electron Beam
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 40 (1) , 366-368
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1657062
Abstract
The dispersion relation is derived for a finite length one‐dimensional electron beam neutralized by positive ions with zero electron and ion temperatures. Contrary to previously published results it is shown that finite ion mass does not produce stability. There are two modes of instability, electron space‐charge waves and ion oscillations. Their relative importance at different lengths is considered.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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