Growth of Harmonic Perturbations of an Electron Shell Orbiting a Positively-Charged Wire (Orbitron)
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
- Vol. 12 (4) , 280-283
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.1984.4316340
Abstract
The negative-mass instability of a cylindrical shell of electrons orbiting a positively-charged wire was studied. The harmonics of the orbital frequency are found to grow faster than the fundamental, with a growth constant proportional to the square root of the harmonic number.Keywords
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