Bunching phenomena during electron injection into the betatron

Under favourable conditions electrons injected into the betatron give rise to high-frequency oscillations. An experimental investigation of the properties of the oscillations is presented, in which new experimental material is added to an earlier paper 1] and the hypothesis regarding the nature of the oscillations is corrected.The oscillations are due to azimuthal bunching of the injected or captured electrons. The bunching is caused by a regenerative amplification of space-charge density fluctuations. The amplification is produced by the negative mass instability mechanism theoretically investigated by Nielsen, Sessler and Symon 2] and Kolomenskij and Lebedev 3].Bunching of the injected electrons is the primary cause of the capture of electrons injected into a static or slowly varying magnetic field. Bunching of the captured electrons represents a limitation in the magnitude of the capturable charge.

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