INVESTIGATIONS OF HIGH-POWER BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS

Abstract

This research is directed toward the investigation of high-power beam plasma interactions, with specific investigation of the transverse velocity beam modes called for. A system for measuring the transverse energy of an electron beam through its diamagnetism has been developed and used to measure the transverse energy of a beam injected across magnetic field lines. In investigations of the noise emission from a transverse energy beam, discrete noise peaks, which shifted toward higher frequencies when a neutral gas was allowed to enter the vacuum chamber, occurred at the electron-cyclotron frequency and its first three harmonics. Experiments in helium indicate that the emission may be described by a hybrid frequency relationship. Analysis of the data from beam plasma interaction experiments has indicated the possible existence of a transverse energy beam mode on our experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0825414

Entities

People

  • Claude Lustig
  • David Morse
  • Harry Ewald

Organizations

  • Sperry Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Cyclotrons
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diamagnetism
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Frequency
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Plasma Waves
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Transverse
  • Vacuum Chambers
  • Voltage
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics