DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BEAM/PLASMA INTERACTION APPARATUS.

Abstract

An apparatus has been developed for the study of electron beam/plasma collisional interactions. The motivation for this study is the potential use of electron beam methods to infer the charged particle density in a weakly ionized plasma. The equipment has been designed to measure the angular distribution of scattered electrons and the fraction of the beam surviving after a given plasma interaction length. The apparatus utilizes a five-foot beam trajectory to achieve high detector resolution. Geomagnetic perturbative effects are prevented by geomagnetic alignment of the beam without resorting to Helmholtz coils or magnetic shielding. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0835202

Entities

People

  • Stephen Wawak Jr

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Carriers
  • Charged Particles
  • Detectors
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Motivation
  • Particles
  • Shielding
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems