Experimental Investigation on Temporal Evolution of Beam Plasma Discharge

Taro Dodo; Yukio Abe; Seiji Kamata; Ji Han-Tao; Masao Sugawa; Kuniaki Takahashi; Nobuki Kawashima

doi:10.1143/JJAP.29.173

Experimental Investigation on Temporal Evolution of Beam Plasma Discharge

Taro Dodo, Yukio Abe, Seiji Kamata, Ji Han-Tao, Masao Sugawa, Kuniaki Takahashi, Nobuki Kawashima

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Abstract

A pulse (∼200 µs) of electron beam (0.3∼1.5 kV, 2∼20 mA) is injected into Argon gas (10^-5∼10^-4Torr) in a magnetic field (50∼300 G). A two-stream instability develops from low frequency (∼MHz) to high frequency (∼100 MHz) in proportion to the increase of the plasma frequency. When the instability frequency reaches the cyclotron frequency, the wave energy is rapidly transferred by cyclotron damping to the plasma and an ionization avalanche (beam plasma discharge) occurs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	173-176
Number of pages	4
Journal	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	29
Issue number	1 R
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.29.173
State	Published - Jan 1990
Externally published	Yes

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General Physics and Astronomy

Keywords

Beam plasma discharge
Cyclotron damping
Electron heating
Two stream instability

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