EFFECT OF A BOUNDARY ON THE BEAM PLASMA INSTABILITY
Abstract
In recent years there has been considerable interest in the spatial- temporal growth of instabilities arising when a beam is injected into a plasma. There does not appear, however, to be any theoretical treatment of the modification of the growth of an initial perturbation due to the presence of a spatial boundary. This modification will be illustrated for the case of a monoenergetic electron beam injected into a cold plasma with an infinitely massive ion background. The treatment is based on the linearized hydrodynamic equations and Maxwell's equations for the normalized densities, the drift velocities, and the electric field.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0690128
Entities
People
- E. A. Jackson
- Kenneth Evans Jr.
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign