Two-Stream Instability in Finite Beams
- 1 February 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 5 (2), 196-209
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706596
Abstract
The streaming instabilities of a finite beam of charged particles passing through a zero‐temperature plasma are studied. It is shown that there are no eigenmodes associated with the instabilities. Nevertheless, by constructing wave‐packet disturbances one is led to instabilities similar to those for a beam of infinite extent.Keywords
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