The Total Field in Collective Bremsstrahlung in a Nonequilibrium Relativistic Beam-Plasma System.

Abstract

An expression is obtained for the total electric field associated with collective bremsstrahlung in a nonequilibrium relativistic beam-plasma system in the case of a slowly varying, nearly spatially independent background distribution with no external fields. The field is assumed to consist of an unperturbed regular part corresponding to the nonradiative part of the field of the particles and a stochastic part corresponding to the bremsstrahlung radiation field. The relations derived here are needed in calculations of collective bremsstrahlung processes and the conditions for the occurrence of bremsstrahlung radiative instability in relativistic beam-plasma systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136595

Entities

People

  • H. E. Brandt

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Delta Functions
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Particle Trajectories
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Weapons

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  • Physics

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  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.