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Later stages in the evolution of a beam-plasma system

1974; IOP Publishing; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0032-1028/16/1/006

1879-2979

J. H. A. van Wakeren, H. J. Hopman, B. Jurgens, J. Kistemaker,

Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena

Measurements indicate a thermalization of a trapped electron beam. The resulting hot beam-plasma system is unstable for new waves. The succession of instabilities leads to a stepwise diffusion in velocity space of beam particles to smaller velocities.